Hi,

In message <_A4007@delegate-en.ML_> on 07/14/08(21:06:54)
you "Soenke J. Peters" <pu4hqbdyi-q45w4ppky3y6.ml@delegate.org> wrote:
 |I tried your delegate proxy as a protocol translator between pop3/imap4
 |and http.
 |
 |When using
 |delegated -v -P8080 SERVER=http MOUNT="/mail/* imap://mail.example.com/*"
 |and trying to access http://localhost:8080/mail/, the browser doesn't
 |get a response at all.
 |IMAP4 is served by Dovecot IMAPd.

IMAP over HTTP is not supported.


 |A similar try using
 |delegated -v -P8080 SERVER=http MOUNT="/mail/* pop://mail.example.com/*"
 |shows an authentication/basic dialog in the browser, but auth fails.
 |This is due to the fact that my usernames are "username@example..",
 |which delegate strips to "username".

You can suppress the intepretation of "@" in username or password in the
Basic authentication by escaping it to "%40" with the following option.

  HTTPCONF=passesc:@

Cheers,
Yutaka
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