Although I've never used it myself, there is also perdition, which "allows
users to connect to a content-free POP3 or IMAP4 server that will redirect
them to their real POP3 or IMAP4 server". Find it via freshmeat, or:
http://www.us.vergenet.net/linux/perdition/
I think freshmeat lists a number of other POP3 (at least) proxies.
Jethro.
On 16 May 2000 michael@??? wrote:
> > We use the proxying approach too, but with a relatively small number of
> > very large spool hosts at the moment. Unfortunately our proxy solution is
> > a commercial one. Would you mind providing more information about your
> > solution for POP/IMAP proxying Michael?
>
> Let me first say that the POP3 proxy looks ugly inside, but you only
> need to exchange one function for your purposes and perhaps add a
> new configuration option. It is available from:
>
> http://www.moria.de/~michael/pop3proxyd/
>
> Now the imap proxy is a different story. Having read the RFC, I think
> that IMAP can not be proxied with a single thread without actually
> interpreting it, so my IMAP proxy consists of two processes that copy
> data forth and back. I think so because of the pipelining stuff and
> the need to label requests, but I am not sure if I am right about that.
>
> Sorry, no polished up release. It's an amazingly ugly patch to courier
> imapd that constantly cries "but I do work". I can send you some code,
> but you will have to hack it for your purposes and it is simple enough
> to be possibly written from scratch with enough time to produce something
> worth releasing. ;-)
>
> Michael
>
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