On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Cor Bosman <
cor@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Instead of serving stateless PHP pages, you get a fully stateful AJAX
> application. Roundcube already uses AJAX, but crucially, not for making the
> IMAP connection. The proposal was about having a persistent IMAP connection,
> without having PHP as an intermediary. In that case you don't need to open up
> a new IMAP connection for every user action.
>
> You only use one proxy, which can be written in any language. In fact, it's
> only there in case the IMAP server is not accessible from the internet.
The PHP side of Roundcube does a little bit more than just maintain
an IMAP connection. You're basically talking about a total rewrite of
Roundcube just so it can be more like another project. Use the other
project :)
Cor