[dev] maildir support

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> 
> Tradeoff: security. You're suddenly writing a piece of software 
> which needs to run with root priviledges, instead of an IMAP client.
> 

This does depend on how you store your maildirs (vpopmail/vmailmgr
can deliver to a set of uids that aren't root), but ultimately, your
server has access to a hell of a lot more than it should, which
is very bad.

> IMO, the best thing that could possibly happen for IMP is if we 
> could go ahead and cache a hell of a lot more data with 
> each session - and ideally make the IMAP connection persistant, 
> but even just being able to cache some headers, the whole mailbox 
> listing, and only update things when they actually change, would 
> be a huge win.

That would be great!

Is there a size limit in the session variable?  I recall dimly
that there were some problem with PHPLIB, but I don't have much
experience with the PHP4 session stuff beyond setting values in
the $imp variable ;)

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Anil Madhavapeddy, <anil@recoil.org>
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