[Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP

[Johannes Berg]

On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 06:55 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: 
> Here's some thoughts I'd like to throw out there. I know it's not 
> standard IMAP protocol but someone has to try new ideas first and I want 
> to see what people (Timo) think of this.
> 
> IMAP establishes a connection between the client and the server. 
> Wouldn't it be great if it could be a conduit to let custom Thunderbird 
> plugins talk to custom server application over the IMAP interface? 

Why do you always want to stuff everything into IMAP?

> For 
> example, personalized server settings.

Isn't there some protocol similar to IMAP that solves this?

> Who likes this idea?

I strongly disagree with this idea. Too little definition, too much
server dependence, not portable across installations.

IMHO defining some behaviour that is so little related to the original
purpose of IMAP is counterproductive.

Besides, why do you need to do this with IMAP? There's a protocol that
supports all this already, it's called ssh. You can even tunnel pre-auth
IMAP tunnels through the same ssh connection :)

johannes
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