[Zope-dev] IMAP Server

[Ben Leslie]

Hi Hannu!

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Hannu Krosing wrote:

> Michel Pelletier wrote:
> > 
> > Brad,
> > 
> > Hi, I think I recall you being interested in writing an IMAP server in
> > Python.  I have begun writing an IMAP server, and I was curious if you'd
> > like to join me in the development.
> > 
> > I have an IMAP server based on asychat, my own protocol handler, and
> > ZODB.  Zope itegration is imminently planned.  Below is the readme.
> > 
> > I'll be setting up a site on starship tonight/tommorow to host the
> > project.  Are interested?
>  
> I've been planning writing an IMAP server (at least initiually in python) 
> that uses PostgreSQL as it's data store for quite a while now. 
> The thing that currently makes it kludgey is yet inadequate support for long 
> (>8k) strings and inefficient storage for BLOB's (for keeping attachments)
> The first is being currently addressed (probably in timeframe of ~3 months)
> the second is doable in several ways but there is no consensus yet how to do
> it.
> 
> So, yes I'm interested.
> 
> I'm also interested, weather it is possible to use IMAP as an access protocol 
> for editing zope contents. AFAIK there are some provisions for storing edited 
> contents in IMAP4 and most properties can probably be expressed as header
> lines 
> or nested mailboxes?


Yeah I am also interested. I am still working on NotMail at the moment. I it is
getting a lot closer to release quality, but please CC with any discussion on this.

Cheers,

Benno