using cyrus as imap proxy

[Stephen Carr]

Dear Bron

Would http://www.imapproxy.org/ fit the bill?
I use with SquirrelMail and it does speed up the transfers as it caches 
the users credentials with s hit ratio near 20:1.

Regards
Stephen Carr

Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:19:34 +0100, "Christoph Höger" <choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> due to sluggish performance of evolution/my imap provider I would like
>> to setup the following configuration:
>>
>>
>> 		IMAP/local		IMAPS		
>> Evolution       <-------------> Proxy   <----------->   IMAP-server
>>
>> That should work by providing the user credentials to the proxy which
>> should then download and cache all data needed for _fast_ reading,
>> searching through mails etc.
>>
>> There are some tools already for that offlineimap does it on invokation,
>> fetchmail only in one direction. The question is: can I configure cyrus
>> do work as a proxy as shown above?
> 
> Nope.  It's an interesting idea.  I started writing one a while back, but
> it's very much a part time project that isn't getting much attention.
> 
> Bron ( I want one of these too! )

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