[KLUG Members] IMAP Aggregator? (Did Nortel do something that made sense?)

[Adam Williams]

> I've been researching groupware for the office at work, and one of the criteria
> is "Unified Messaging" with out Nortel BCM VOIP boxes.  These theoretically let
> you browse your e-mail, faxes, voice mail, etc... all at the same time.
> Now I'm thinking propietary hell....  so I'm port scanning / packet tracing to
> get an idea how it actually works.... Nortel CallPilot is an IMAP server!  Yep,
> voice mail, etc... is just a bunch of boring mail objects.
> The "swanky" I-crash-all-the-bloody-time client pluging (Win32 only of course)
> is just a *REALLY* crumby IMAP client.  It works in Netscape Mail, Eudora,
> Groupwise, Notes, and of course M$-Owwwlooooook.
> But I'm curious if there is some kind of shim application I can put between the
> real IMAP client (IMP, Evolution, Eudora, etc...) and the real IMAP server
> (Cyrus) that will "aggregate" these two store and accomplish the same thing on
> the backend as their stupid plugin does from the client side.

I think I've found an "aggregator" -
http://www.vergenet.net/linux/perdition/

Anyone used this before?

Description is -
"Perdition is a fully featured POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server. It is able
to handle both SSL and non-SSL connections and redirect users to a
real-server based on a database lookup. Perdition supports modular based
database access. ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GDBM, POSIX Regular Expression
and NIS modules ship with the distribution. The API for modules is open
allowing abitary modules to be written to allow access to any data
store. 

Perdition has many uses. Including, creating large mail systems where an
end-user's mailbox may be stored on one of several hosts, integrating
different mail systems together, migrating between different email
infrastructures, and bridging plain-text, SSL and TLS services. It can
also be used as part of a firewall."