On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 10:30 -0600, Jesse Norell wrote: > I'd be interested in what you come up with for a solution here. I've > put just a little thought to this same scenario in the past, and came up > with wanting to stick a proxy in between the client and sql server. > Either something that can police the specific queries made or use some > custom protocol to generate the query on the proxy (eg. client sends > "folderlist [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and the proxy runs the sql for that and returns > the results). The former would probably be easier to impliment, the > latter would give more flexibility (eg. you could stick the session id > in there, too, so the proxy can verify the owner of the session against > a query to look up that account's mail, etc.).
There are a couple of webmail solutions that use server side proxies: Custom C++ backend -- http://alphamail.uoosl.org/ Custom C backend -- http://www.aeromys.org/ All PHP solution? -- http://www.dolda2000.com/~fredrik/doldawebmail/ Mother of all IMAP Proxies -- http://www.imapproxy.org/ Aaron
