[Dovecot] feature request: IMAP passdb prefetch

[Timo Sirainen]

On 2.8.2013, at 18.20, Richard Platel <rplatel at tucows.com> wrote:

> It'd be useful for us if the IMAP passdb could be used as a prefetch userdb.
> 
> The remote IMAP server could respond with something like
> 
> * OK key=value
> * OK key=value
> SEQ OK [CAPABILITY ...] Logged in.
> 
> Or
> 
> * OK <some JSON key value pairs>
> SEQ OK [CAPABILITY ...] Logged in.
> 
> Would anyone else find this useful?

Uh. Why not simply something completely different like HTTP-based passdb?