[Dovecot] Webmail app ... again.

Roderick A. Anderson raanders at acm.org
Thu Aug 14 02:03:23 EEST 2008


Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> Geert Hendrickx wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:37:11PM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>  
>>> One thing that would be nice, that pretty much no webmail does, is to
>>> keep a stateful connection open all the time (or at least some of the
>>> time) instead of creating tons of short-lived connections that ask the
>>> same stuff over and over again. With a stateful connection you could
>>> basically run IDLE and wait for changes there instead of asking all  the
>>> time "is there new mail?" "is there new mail now?" "what about  now?".
>>>     
> I'm sure "native" support would be better, but how is this different 
> from using Squirrelmail with IMAPProxy?

Very interesting.  I was thinking of hos to do something similar to 
IMAPProxy.  Now I may not have to reinvent that wheel.


Thanks,
Rod
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