[imp] Outgoing mail

[Rick Romero]

On 21 Dec 2000, at 0:33, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> Quoting Rick Stevens <rstevens@publichost.com>:
> 
> > I can ask our legal eagles about releasing some of this stuff, but
> > don't get your hopes up.  They can be picky suckers.
> 
> I can imagine. But the custom MDA stuff really interests me - if we had a
> decent way to deliver to random files (all, say, owned by the webserver
> user), we could pretty easily modify IMP to work using c-client in local
> file mode, which would let people run without an IMAP server - I imagine
> some people would _love_ that. =) Folders might be a little tricky, but it's
> doable, and if there's interest I'd be willing to look into it.

What you're saying sounds a bit like how Pegasus Mail is 
structured..
If you're not familiar with Pegasus Mail, it's a primarily Novell based 
email system.  In 'Novell' mode, users mail is kept in their home 
directories on the server.  New emails are individual .cnm files, and 
folders are compressed files, containing all the messages the 
folder contains.
There is also an NT mode, except I believe all the users names are 
stored within Mercury (MDA) for non-novell users to POP mail.

If you could adapt IMP to work with Pegasus mail files, you'd 
immediately give all Pegasus Mail Novell users access to 
"WebMail".  At this time Mercury (Pegasus Mail's MDA 
counterpart) doesn't have IMAP capabilities, so any current 
"WebMail" implementation would use POP3, dispursing the users 
mail.

Personally, I think this would Rock.  If IMP uses LDAP to 
authenticate against NDS, AND get the users home directory, all 
you'd have to do is read the files via ncpmount'd drive..

And that's just on Novell.. It could easily be adapted for *nix.

The only potential problem I see is that Pegasus Mail is NOT open 
source.  I'm not sure if David Harris would be willing to open up the 
base of the Pegasus Mail / Mercury structure.   
http://www.pmail.com

> --
> "I have pointy little boobs!" - Jason
> 
> -- 
I really didn't want to know that.  :)


Sincerely,
Rick Romero

IT Manager
Valeo, Inc.
rick@valeoinc.com
262-695-4841