From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...>
Date: 2006-10-22T02:35:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing IMAP->GMail proxy... Where to go for IMAP RFC help?

On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:06:40AM +0900, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
} On 10/20/06, Chris Carter <cdcarter@gmail.com> wrote:
} >
} >Hi
} >> I'm unaware that Gmail even supports access by IMAP clients. Do you know
} >for
} >> sure that it does?
} >It does not,  He is writing a proxy for it to suppport it.
} 
} It would have to be a gateway rather than a proxy. (Of course these terms
} aren't precisely defined.) You'd basically have to gate IMAP to POP and
} store all the additional state in an intermediate server. Is that the idea
} here?

Er, if that's the goal then I implemented it a couple of years ago. I use
fetchmail to retrieve messages to my machine at home, which runs
courier-imap to serve IMAP. No Ruby involved.

--Greg