Yeah it is a great idea. For example with a good plugin which is used in a Webmail environment. Individual clients may submit spam mails to the email server with these imap "extension" and it will create self control against with the users of email server.
2007/5/23, Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On May 23, 2007 11:54:20 AM -0700 Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMAP establishes a connection between the client and the server. Wouldn't > it be great if it could be a conduit to let custom Thunderbird plugins > talk to custom server application over the IMAP interface? For example, > personalized server settings. Suppose for example I want Thunderbird to > edit my server side white lists or black lists or any other setting? > Wouldn't it be nice if IMAP supported these changes? The connection is > made. It's a secure connection that's been authenticated. Lets use it! Sounds like a job for ACAP. -frank
