[fwd from Timothy Martin] INN patches

[Russ Allbery]

Hi Timothy,

Your message was forwarded to inn-patches at isc.org.  Thank you very much
for your contribution!

> From: Timothy Martin <tmartin at andrew.cmu.edu>
> To: inn at isc.org, post+org.acs.asg.project.mail at andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: INN patches

> I have written some patches to INN that allow it to feed an IMAP
> server. Presently we run INN directly on our Cyrus IMAP server and every
> so many minutes/hours look at the articles and create a Cyrus index file
> so the new articles are accessible via IMAP. With this patch we could
> run INN on a seperate machine (lessening the load on the main mail
> machine) and allowing users to see new messages as soon as they are fed.

This sounds like a very useful feature, particularly given the growing
popularity of IMAP.  I'd like to have this included in INN, but at the
present time we're trying to ramp up for a stable 2.3 release and I'd
prefer not to put this sort of change in the tree right now.  I'd like to
add it to the CURRENT branch right after we cut a release branch so that
people can start playing with it.

My expected timeframe is within a couple of weeks.

Sound reasonable to you?

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>