On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > we use Squirrelmail 1.2.11 over stunnel with imap. No problems. I think the > > next stable version 1.4 is able to do SSL on it's own (RC2 is out). > Aye - but without fairly significant connection cashing - SSL, even over a > loopback interface, is a bit of an expense; esp. when you need to setup > and tear down as often as SQ does (right now).
If SSL is an expense for setup/tear down, then IMAP is even more of expense. IMAP is a very stateful protocol, and broken clients that deliberately discard hard-won state are not going to be good for server performance. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
