On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:19:45 +0930, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 05:53:48PM -0400, Wesley Craig wrote: > > > On 21 Sep 2007, at 13:36, Pascal Gienger wrote: > > > > A proxy would mean another possibility of failure. How stable is > > > > that proxy daemon? Another two boxes for redundancy? > > > > > > UMich runs the caching proxy on the host running httpd/webmail. > > > up- imapproxy is very stable. > > > > Fastmail runs our own "imappool" which is a funky daemon capable > > of passing FDs around between processes. I don't know how it works > > precisely, but it uses Socket::Pool which had a sourceforge project > > and doesn't appear to any more. My guess is that I'd rather not > > look at the code for fear of going totally insane. > > You can pass file descriptors over UNIX domain sockets, see SCM_RIGHTS. > Here is some code Google found -> > http://search.cpan.org/src/SAMPO/Socket-PassAccessRights-0.03/passfd.c Yeah, I think we're using that somewhere too. > It's a feature, not an insane kludge! Pot-ay-to, Pot-ah-to. Any sufficiently insane kludge is indistinguishable from a Unix feature (or did I get that backwards?) That said, I'm tempted by Wes's up-imapproxy idea for our WAP server. It's written in PHP so we don't run it on a box inside our trusted network, it just talks IMAP with the plebs. It currently uses imap_pconnect which has the lovely /feature/ of returning "too many login failures" rather than the actual error message if you enter the wrong password. Using a proxy to avoid continual reconnects but that could actually return a sane error message would be very nice. Bron. -- Bron Gondwana brong@xxxxxxxxxxx ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
