asterisk users - Oct 2007 - Is anyone successfully using IMAP storage

Hi,

Not using IMAP storage here, although that was one of the primary 
drivers for upgrading to Asterisk 1.4.  Why?

The short answer is that it's too confining.  There are too many caveats 
that don't fit into our existing IMAP structure and make the entire 
project rather iffy.  Security is a concern too - we don't want to have 
one set of credentials that have absolute access to everyone's email 
from the CEO down.  I suspect we /could/ make it work, but the thought 
of experimenting on our live IMAP server sends chills down my spine.  
(we don't have the budget or time to duplicate our mail server to allow 
fiddling on a non-production system)

The idea is brilliant.  The weird dependency on having a 
compiled-but-not-installed UW-IMAP isn't - I would have thought that 
using a library such as libvmime would have made more sense.

Olivier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> From personal experience, Asterisk 1.4 IMAP storage seems broken and 
> unusable.
> Is anyone using it successfully ?
>
> This kind of poll would be very useful to estimate is a code rewrite 
> has a chance to disturb a running system.
> I we get no "successful report", it would help developers to
consider
> a code rewrite as patch instead of a new feature.
>
> So please, do not hesitate to report successful or unsuccessful or 
> never tried use of IMAP storage, it will increase our chances to get 
> this feature in 1.4 branch and not wait for 1.6.
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On 10/18/07, Olivier <oza-4h07 at myamail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> From personal experience, Asterisk 1.4 IMAP storage seems broken and
> unusable.
> Is anyone using it successfully ?
>
I've read blog entries that indicate that people have used it successfully
but I have not been able to get it to connect to the IMAP server in all my
trials.
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On 10/18/07, Olivier <oza-4h07 at myamail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> From personal experience, Asterisk 1.4 IMAP storage seems broken and
> unusable.
> Is anyone using it successfully ?
>
> This kind of poll would be very useful to estimate is a code rewrite has a
> chance to disturb a running system.
> I we get no "successful report", it would help developers to
consider a code
> rewrite as patch instead of a new feature.
>
> So please, do not hesitate to report successful or unsuccessful or never
> tried use of IMAP storage, it will increase our chances to get this feature
> in 1.4 branch and not wait for 1.6.
>
> Cheers
I wanted to use it but there's *NO* documentation. We don't use
dovecot but our IMAP server has a master user function... can't figure
out if its the same as the dovecot function, because:

1) The dovecot function isn't documented
2) There's no documentation as to how asterisk writes to the IMAP.

So I'll put it out to the world to see if someone knows how it
works.... Our email server can do this:

"You can log into any mailbox via IMAP if your user has mboxadmin
capabilities. So if you want to use UserA to log into UserB's mailbox,
you can do the following:

Username: mboxadmin:UserA:UserB
Password: Password_User_A"

Is that what Asterisk is expecting?

Hello,

I think I will create a new thread with a more attractive tittle to gather
more feedback, so that decisions are easier.

Up to now (4 answers): no one uses IMAP storage.
As 1.4 is not so widely spread, chances are this IMAP feature is not used at
all.

Regards
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