[Dovecot] Stateful Webmail

[Patrick Nagel]

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On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:51:20 -0700, "Michael Carter"
<cartermichael at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a developer on the Orbited project (http://www.orbited.org), which
> provides a TCPSocket interface in javascript (emulated over HTTP using
> ajax
> and comet.) This TCPSocket allows true bi-directional communication
> between
> a web browser and an arbitrary tcp server.

Interesting... TCP over HTTP over TCP ;)

> Coincidentally, we have just began work on a JavaScript IMAP client. With
> it, building a webmail app should be *entirely* a UI concern. The good
> news
> is that our Socket interface is very stable and is being used in
> production
> for protocols like IRC for webchat. The bad news is that none of the the
> Orbited developers have experience with the IMAP protocol.
> 
> We are putting all of our protocol implementations in the soon-to-launch
> js.io project (www.js.io). As soon as we have any kind of IMAP client
> prototype, I'll let you know. In the meantime, would anyone be
interesting
> in helping us develop the imap client? Its 100% pure JavaScript, and will
> greatly ease the development of feature-rich webmail, as a webmail
> deployment will become a matter of simply running Dovecot, the js.io.imap
> client, and an HTML gui.

Maybe you can have a look at http://decimail.org/index.html - I never tried
it though. Somebody posted a link to it on the Roundcube Webmail mailing
list (http://lists.roundcube.net/mail-archive/dev/2008-07/0000023.html),
that's how it got my attention.

Patrick.

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