Marc Perkel, 23.05.2007 (d.m.y): > 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?
AFAIK, the "M" in IMAP stands for "Mail", not for "Calendar" or "Schedules". > The connection is made. It's a secure connection that's been authenticated. You can also use LDAP and/or Kerberos to authenticate your users for other services - e.g. HTTP/WebDAV access to their Calendars, for managing their Sieve filters and so on. Thus, your proposal sounds to me a bit like reinventing the wheel. And I think that what we want is dovecot, not Exchange. Nevertheless, feel free to give me $500. ;-) Gruss/Regards, Christian Schmidt -- Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain