On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 06:17:01AM -0800, Mark Crispin wrote:
> 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.
Very true, as I see on our mailserver:(
On the other hand a lot (most?) webmail gateways use imap to
communicate and yes, they start a new imap for every user action, then
close it. They do (or have to do) other bad things as well, like
keeping the users password or being written in php ;-)
Anyway, I needed to offer our users some webmail gateway and
Squirrelmail/stunnel seemed to be the best solution for us.
-Ralf
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