On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Marc Groot Koerkamp wrote: > Talking about imap proxies, are there imap proxies around that do more > then handle the login stage only. I.e. buffering all the unsollicited > responses between 2 pageloads (in case of webmail). And if they do, are > there limitations to the amount of unsollicited responses that can be > buffered?
Rather than expect any general purpose IMAP proxy to solve the problem, it would be better if the webmail application maintained a continuous session instead of opening a new session per click. If you prefer, think of it as a proxy written specifically for the webmail application. In other words, what you need is a back-end task which is created when the user logs in to the webmail application, which maintains the IMAP session(s), and which is terminated when the user logs out or when the webmail session's inactivity timeout occurs. This is not the easiest thing to do, but it is not rocket science either. There are successful webmail applications which do this. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
