[Imapfilter-devel] Patch to build imapfilter on Windows

[Danilo Almeida]

> I do not have a win32 based OS to build and run imapfilter (I also
> don't have a clue about win32 programming), so I don't think I can
> maintain the win32 port of the program.

I can take care of that.

> I think that keeping the main distribution and any ports of imapfilter
> separate is the way to go.  So the primary goal of the main 
> distribution is imapfilter to build and run under BSD and Linux, and
> keep the code as portable as possible in order to be easy to build
> under other platforms.  Ports of imapfilter are then assigned to
> whoever is interested maintaining them (similar to how the OpenSSH
> portability team works), and are available through imapfilter's home
> page (binaries and source code).

I can understand your concerns in terms of maintaining the codebase, but
do you foresee a lot of overhead in trying to keep additional OS support
in imapfilter?  It is a relatively simple codebase, so I don't foresee a
lot of portability issues.  I know I would love to see imapfilter widely
used.  I actually have access to a wide range of Unix platforms in
addition to Windows, and am willing to volunteer to test on various
platforms.
 
> Of course, I don't know if anyone is really interested in taking care
> of a port, and in this case the win32 port.

I'm certainly interested in maintaining a Win32 port as I'm planning on
transitioning to imapfilter for my IMAP filtering needs.

FYI, I am working on SASL support for imapfilter.  At MIT, our IMAP
server support authentication only through SSL or Kerberos (via SASL).
Since we do not want our users storing their passwords in config files,
I need the SASL support.  Once that is done, I plan to submit the
patches and install imapfilter centrally at MIT for our various Unix
platforms (mostly Linux, Solaris, and Irix, though I may build for
others).

(At one point, I had been thinking of modifying imapfilter so that it
can prompt for a password so that users do not have to store the
password in a config file.  However, I was not sure that people would
like that feature.  The SASL support was what a really wanted, so I
chose not to pursue prompting for passwords.)

- Danilo



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