Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
On Mar 16, 2016, at 6:04 PM, Paul Vixie<[email protected]> wrote:
prayer is the simplest and faster webmail system i ever found for my family's
use while traveling.
But. How. Does webmail have anything to do with this?
webmail and mh both have a fork+exec before every operation, thus the
need to keep an IMAP session open persistenly across many fork+exec's.
if MH could proxy its IMAP operations through a daemon running on a unix
domain socket or the loopback interface, then we could idealize the RPC
API between MH and that daemon. one thought is restful json.
i mentioned prayer webmail because it's an extremely high quality C
implementation of this idea, and has an MH-compatible license.
i bring up this proxying idea because i'd be the first to write a proxy
that spoke Maildir instead of IMAP, and ken would be the first to write
a proxy that spoke MH-Dir, at which point the whole existing MH code
base would be simpler and more modular than it is now.
--
P Vixie
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