Prayer is a small and fast HTTP to IMAP gateway written entirely in C. * Uses persistent connections to IMAP server and support servers. * Target folders remain SELECTed: not a simple-minded proxy. * Full caching (including sort/thread cache) for each open folder. * Up to five persistent IMAP connections (typically one or two in use): o INBOX and one other folder o Postponed message folder stream o Preferences stream o Folder transfer stream o Various optimisations/sharing to minimise actual IMAP connections * Directory cache: single round trip to IMAP server for directory listing. * Works well with UW IMAP server (even using Unix format mail folders). * Little discernible load on a Pentium III class system running Linux with 5,000 logins/day (400 logins/hour, 150 concurrent logins) * Uses 10% to 20% of the CPU and 400 MBytes of RAM on a PIII class system with 23,000 logins/day (1,700 logins/hour, 850 concurrent logins peak) * Aggressive HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 connection caching to reduce SSL overhead. * Optional gzip compression of pages tunable by IP address range. * Minimal use of fixed length buffers in C source code.
OS | Architecture | Version |
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NetBSD 9.0 | powerpc | prayer-1.3.5nb8.tgz |
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