Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Jun 17, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Jun 17, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Farkas Levente wrote:
would it be possible to create a dovecot server as an imap proxy for
gmail and google apps?
imho many people/company would be love to use such a setup where he
can use gmail in vacation or any other time, but when the email is
real critical apps (not acceptable to wait 1 minutes for an email to
load or to open a folder/label) than he can use a proxy server eg.
dovecot which act as a imap proxy to gmail and can be hosted on
closer, faster server and this speed problem never happend. what's
more it can be used as a mail backup server too.
I've thought about a caching IMAP mail storage backend for Dovecot and
even started implementing it once, but it didn't get very far. If
someone wants to try to continue it, I can send what I've written so
far. Although it's mostly a copy of cydir backend with a tiny bit of
it replaced with IMAP code.
Now that I think of it, the IMAP backend should do only direct IMAP
backend accessing and if caching is wanted it could be a generic middle
layer. Might be also useful for other things like caching mails from NFS
server. Although Linux already has a cachefs for that.
it seems other people also thing about this:
http://community.livejournal.com/linux/1748995.html
so it'd be useful thing for many of us:-)
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Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
