28 Feb
2011
28 Feb
'11
6:31 p.m.
On 2/28/2011 9:20 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 20:17 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
Some potential (future) uses for imapc include:
- Locally caching IMAP proxy
- Maybe even fully transparent proxy to client, so at office it would be using Dovecot proxy while at home it would connect directly to remote server. (A bit tricky with SSL connections, but possible I'd think.)
- Filtering proxy that modifies messages on the fly
- Fixing Exchange's (and everyone else's) IMAP support by being in front of it
Anyone have good ideas what this thing could be called? :) Calling it "proxy" would confuse it with the dummy proxying feature of Dovecot. And calling it "smart proxy" isn't very clear either what it does, especially since I don't think it even is a proxy really.
So far the best I've come up with is a buzzwordy "IMAP accelerator".
Accelerator would work since a good use could be at the edge of a company branch network... especially if it had a "prefetch = yes" option and was given sufficient disk space.