On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:03 PM, LUNDY Guillaume IT&l...@bs<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to use James as an proxy beween the real mail server and the > heavy weight UI client (outlook, thunderbird...) .
perhaps but depending on what you mean by proxy, it may not be worthwhile if you could explain more about your idea, that would be useful > It would be kind of proxy for Pop3, SMPT and IMAP protocols. > I would like James (used a a proxy) > - not to store mail (as it is a proxy) > - processes mails on the fly (in mailets) james is good at processing mail :-) but the mail protocols are not RESTful, and hard to proxy with gain POP3, SMTP and IMAP are very different protocols, so let's take them individually setting up james so that a mailet forwards to another SMTP server is quite straight forward. i'm not sure where the gain would be in this arrangement, though. POP3 is lightweight and AIUI most clients delete mail from the server after download. it should be possible to create a proxy POP3 store that would contact the storage server and request the mail from there. again, unless james is going to store the mail, i'm not sure where the gain is in this arrangement. IMAP would be a tricky protocol to proxy. it would be possible to cache copies of the mail on the proxying server but most cilents do this anyway so i'm doubtful about any potential performance gains. - robert
