[imp] imp 2.3.x vs TWIG

[rob@myinternetplace.net]

Quoting Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>:

> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:
>
> > Quoting rob@myinternetplace.net:
> >
> > > That helps a lot.  Thank you.  I was looking at what hotmail had to
> > > offer yesterday, and I noticed that they will read the email from
> > > multiple servers, simultaneously.  How would one do that in IMAP?
> >
> > Just talk to the different servers.... I'm not entirely sure what you
> mean by
> > simultaneously?
> >
>

> I'm not sure if this covers it, but I'm _still_ intending to write
> an IMAP proxy that will sit there with persistent connections to one
> or more IMAP servers and rewrite their namespace into a single one,
> so that it looks like a single IMAP server.

> The design problem I ran into: how to authenticate for the remote
> servers, if the two IMAP servers have different passwords?  My only
> idea was to ask the user to separate the password entered into the
> proxy with a predefined key, so that they could be sent to the
> separate servers. (e.g. if I had two passwords 'dude' and 'sweet',
> and a key '||', then my proxy password would be 'dude||sweet'.  Not
> very elegant - other ideas welcome.

I hate to keep bringing uphotmail as the paradigm of "the way to be",
but some things I know are that their interface is used by many, and
that they can do many different servers at one time.

In hotmail, one logs in to the hotmail service.  In the hotmail
preferences, you set up other servers/passwords to go get email from.

rob

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