IMAP suggestions

I am building a mail app, which includes a lot of classes. The classes
all inherit from a base class which opens a connection to the imap
server so that it's easy to get messages, etc.

Can anyone suggest the best way of maintaining a persistent stream so I
don't have to keep reopening the connection to the server?

Hi,

You can use a caching IMAP proxy like up-imapproxy (freshmeat.net/
projects/imapproxy/). This is suggested to ease high load with webmail
clients like SquirrelMail or horde.

Alternatively, you could just cache the mailbox headers and invalidate
it based on imap_status / imap_check.

Downloading headers usually takes the most time, but if you want to
persist the socket, you can cook something up with Net_IMAP and
pfsockopen.

Regards,

John Peters

On May 27, 11:44 am, Hugh Oxford <ares...@fas.com> wrote:
> I am building a mail app, which includes a lot of classes. The classes
> all inherit from a base class which opens a connection to the imap
> server so that it's easy to get messages, etc.
>
> Can anyone suggest the best way of maintaining a persistent stream so I
> don't have to keep reopening the connection to the server?