[imp] imp 2.3.x vs TWIG

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>:

> 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'd just make the client responsible for sending the right auth info, for 
whatever server - don't break the protocol to make the proxy too smart.

-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
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