[Dovecot] imapproxy

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 06:45 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> > imapproxy maintains a stateful connection between the imap server
> > and the web server, so that a reconnection/authentication to imap
> > isn't needed every time the webmail user does something.  Saves
> > cpu cycles bigtime...
> >
> > BTW: we use horde/imp for our webmail
> >
> Is it hard to install? Is there any down side to it?

Just don't let regular users connect to it. Its design is to run
everything in one process, so a security hole in it could give the
attacker full access everyone's IMAP traffic. If only trusted webmail
app can access it, there are a lot less potential ways to break it.
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