Hi,
dovecot provides POP and IMAP services.
Proposal:
Would be nice if it also could offer an RSS-Feed for a mailbox, giving a summery of sender/subject/date and maybe the first lines of text.
regards Hadmut
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 10:16 +0100, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
Would be nice if it also could offer an RSS-Feed for a mailbox, giving a summery of sender/subject/date and maybe the first lines of text.
Heh. And I do it the other way around, using rss2email.
I think that you can easily write a program (say in python) that opens a mailbox via imap and provides a feed, performance should be good enough.
johannes
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:52:07PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
I think that you can easily write a program (say in python) that opens a mailbox via imap and provides a feed, performance should be good enough.
I could easily write a program (ruby, python,...) that provides a pop server via imap. So why has dovecot got a pop server at all?
regards Hadmut
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 17:09 +0100, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
I could easily write a program (ruby, python,...) that provides a pop server via imap. So why has dovecot got a pop server at all?
Maybe because POP is an actual email protocol ;)
I really don't think adding an HTTP server to dovecot would be a good idea.
johannes
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 17:09 +0100, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
I could easily write a program (ruby, python,...) that provides a pop server via imap. So why has dovecot got a pop server at all?
Because people kept bugging me to write it until I gave in. Also some POP3 features can't be easily implemented with IMAP interface.
I can't really think of how RSS feeds could even work. It would need some web server I suppose. It would need authentication I suppose. Would it generate some RSS files somewhere and let web server serve them, or would it run as cgi-bin? And so on.
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