[SM-DEVEL] IMAP proxy -- may be redundant if you guys are already working on one

[<dw...@ex...>]

I have written a daemon that allows web sessions to maintain a network
connection, i.e. a token-based proxy.  I have heard it said that a problem
with squirrelmail speed is having to re-authenticate every hit, so I
thought it might be of use to you guys.  I have used it so far for a
PHP-based IRC client and toyed with it for SquirrelMail, but have never
used it in a full-out production environment.

The CEO gave me the OK to let this out open-source, so if anyone is
interested let me know.  I have the patch to a fairly recent imap.php to
make it work.  Whether it would speed things up, I can't really say -- the
overhead of passing everything through an additional daemon might outweigh
the crunching of the passwords.  I tested it with the profiling I built
into the app both ways, but that can't count the forwarding overhead.

Nice app, btw.