[Vmail-discuss] Courier IMAP anyone?

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:44:32PM -0800, William X Walsh wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 13:35, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:18:43PM -0800, William X Walsh wrote:
> > > 
> > > Has anyone either made changes to their vmail-sql configs to conform to
> > > Courier's expectations, or modified Courier IMAP to conform to the
> > > vmail-sql setup?
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have any pointers for starting a project of this type? 
> > > Anyone else interested in working on this?
> > > 
> > 
> > My intention is to write an IMAP server -- provisionally,
> > timapd -- which will implement the various authentication
> > schemes of tpop3d and remedy some deficiencies I perceive
> > in current IMAP implementations.
> > 
> > This project is at the `thinking very hard about it'
> > stage, and has not quite reached the `writing some code'
> > stage yet.
> 
> As a fan of your tpop3d, I'd most likely switch to that when it was
> ready to use....but I need a solution in the interim, and I'm sure I'm
> not alone  :)

I'd guess that looking at pam-mysql and an existing IMAP
server (UW-IMAPD?) might be profitable, but I haven't
looked in detail.

> I certainly hope you find the time to work on this, I know what an
> undertaking such a project will be!!

Quite....

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