On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 06:55 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > IMAP establishes a connection between the client and the server. > Wouldn't it be great if it could be a conduit to let custom Thunderbird > plugins talk to custom server application over the IMAP interface? For > example, personalized server settings. Suppose for example I want > Thunderbird to edit my server side white lists or black lists or any > other setting? Wouldn't it be nice if IMAP supported these changes? The > connection is made. It's a secure connection that's been authenticated. > Lets use it! > > Here's my initial thoughts on this. Suppose we extended IMAP to include > an EXECUTE command as follows: > > EXECUTE command parameter, parameter ....
I think this could be done in almost standard way with METADATA extension (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-daboo-imap-annotatemore-11.txt). It allows setting and getting any key=value pairs in the server (also for mailboxes). Then you could have a Dovecot plugin that listens for some specific keys and handles them in whatever way you want. > 100 execute blacklist add [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 100 ok METADATA doesn't really support adding/removing, but it could be kludged something like this: 1 setmetadata "" "/x-blacklist/[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (value.priv "1") Although the [EMAIL PROTECTED] can't contain "*" or "%" characters. If that's needed then the string could be base64 encoded. Or the address could be in the value and the key would contain some kind of a unique ID. Listing blacklist would work like: 1 getmetadata "/x-blacklist/* value.priv" Anyway all of this would mean that if client implements a standard METADATA browser you could edit these kinds of lists without any special support from the client.
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