[Dovecot] Smart IMAP proxying with imapc storage

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 20:17 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> Some potential (future) uses for imapc include:
> 
>  * Locally caching IMAP proxy
>   * Maybe even fully transparent proxy to client, so at office it would
> be using Dovecot proxy while at home it would connect directly to remote
> server. (A bit tricky with SSL connections, but possible I'd think.)
>  * Filtering proxy that modifies messages on the fly
>  * Fixing Exchange's (and everyone else's) IMAP support by being in
> front of it

Anyone have good ideas what this thing could be called? :) Calling it
"proxy" would confuse it with the dummy proxying feature of Dovecot. And
calling it "smart proxy" isn't very clear either what it does,
especially since I don't think it even is a proxy really.

So far the best I've come up with is a buzzwordy "IMAP accelerator".