Re: [SM-imapproxy] Imapproxy as mailman archiver

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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-09-14 02:34, Paul Lesniewski
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      <pre wrap="">Sorry for the delay. Please post this kind of message to public mailing
lists, not to personal email addresses.</pre>
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    Thank you for your answer.<br>
    No problem except for having to subscribe to and drown under dozens
    of lists.<br>
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        <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">&lt;https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging&gt;</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.
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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).

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        <pre wrap="">And if someone could make the configuration and provide a server to run
that experiment?
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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>
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    Thanks for letting me know that it would need modifications to
    SquirrelMail IMAP Proxy
    to support Read Only public access.<br>
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        <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.
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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>
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    <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>
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    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>
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    Thanks for your attention.<br>
    Cheers
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