From: André P. <A.P...@ul...> - 2016-09-14 13:44:30
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<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-09-14 02:34, Paul Lesniewski wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:0aa...@sq..." type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Sorry for the delay. Please post this kind of message to public mailing lists, not to personal email addresses.</pre> </blockquote> Thank you for your answer.<br> No problem except for having to subscribe to and drown under dozens of lists.<br> <blockquote cite="mid:0aa...@sq..." type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Please forward to possible more appropriate recipients. I have subscribed to several mailman lists, e.g. tagging <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ta...@op...">ta...@op...</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging"><https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging></a>. I used the same gmail account as subscriber for all of them. I direct each list's e-mail into its own folder (gmail "label") with a gmail filter. Accessing that archive to search it, reply to old messages etc. is a real convenience. I'd love to share that archive with other people. But giving them write access to it would mean its deterioration. Si, I wondered if Imapproxy is able to provide public, read-only access to such a server. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> SquirrelMail IMAP Proxy could be changed to block a list of IMAP commands, but it would be better if you created a list of commands that were acceptable and block all others. Still, keep in mind that even "innocent" commands such as that to read a message can make changes in the message store (in this case, potentially change a message state from unread to read). It's possible there could be worse examples. But, if someone wants to come up with a list of IMAP commands that would comprise a read-only proxy setup, I'd consider adding it since it looks somewhat trivial (FYI, ~line 1354 in Raw_Proxy() in src/request.c). I'm not sure, however, if there would be other ill effects (for example, responding "NO" or "BAD" to disallowed commands might confuse the client, as would issuing a faked (dishonest) "OK" response). </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">And if someone could make the configuration and provide a server to run that experiment? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> BTW, you'd want to configure auth_sasl_plain_username, auth_sasl_plain_password and auth_shared_secret and give out the shared secret to anyone allowed to use the system. Have fun proxying mass access to Gmail - feels like any number of things could go wrong.</pre> </blockquote> Thanks for letting me know that it would need modifications to SquirrelMail IMAP Proxy to support Read Only public access.<br> <br> <blockquote cite="mid:0aa...@sq..." type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I would extend the configuration and make the mailman to gmail message conversion. I run a few byethost-like free servers. I don't know if that imapproxy configuration could be installed on them. If that were possible, I would do it. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> My gut says there are better ways to provide mailing list archives to the public. Maybe you should collaborate to bring back gmane.org (oh wait, it's back).</pre> </blockquote> <a href="http://gmane.org/">I browsed gmain.org</a> for an explanation of how it works and all I could find is "Any public mailing list can be carried by Gmane". When I tried to open the mailing lists links IO found, all I got is "problem loading page".<br> <br> The system I use and suggest in public R/O mode is ideal because all it needs is a plain IMAP MUA and server.<br> You get the full search and reply etc. capabilities that you have with your own IMAP folders.<br> <br> Unfortunately, mailman's Mark Sapiro is not convinced <br> Unfortunately too, many people have fallen in the trap of using Webmails whose first shortcoming of many is to be unable to use several IMAP servers (and hence to copy e-mail to a backup server. Webmails and the way people use IMAP have made e-mail a bad reputation).<br> <br> So, my best option is to continue to enjoy that system for myself.<br> But if you came up with a R/O public version and if I had simple instructions and a server to run it, I would certainly set up demo versions of it, including converting old e-mail logs to IMAP.<br> <br> Thanks for your attention.<br> Cheers <br> <br> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td>André.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> </body> </html> |