cheungpat/imapproxy repository overview

⁠IMAP Proxy Docker Image

This is a docker image for running SquirrelMail's IMAP Proxy⁠ (imapproxy) in a Docker container.

IMAP Proxy is good for keeping IMAP connection open if the client does not. This usually happens for web-based client which opens a new IMAP connection for each HTTP request.

⁠Usage

$ docker run -i -e SERVER_HOSTNAME=imap.gmail.com cheungpat/imapproxy

The SERVER_HOSTNAME environment is the hostname of the IMAP server where imapproxy should connect to. In the above example, imapproxy will proxy IMAP connections to imap.gmail.com. You should replace imap.gmail.com with the hostname of another IMAP server.

⁠Configuration

This docker image can be configured using environment variables. Here is a list of commonly used environment variables:

• SERVER_HOSTNAME - hostname of the IMAP server to proxy IMAP connection to, default is localhost
• SERVER_PORT - port of the IMAP server to proxy IMAP connection to, default is 143
• FORCE_TLS - whether to force the use of STARTTLS when making a connection, default is yes

For a list of environment variables and their default settings, see imapproxyd.conf.tmpl⁠ file.

⁠Author

This repo is created by Kwok-kuen Cheung⁠. IMAP Proxy was originally written by Dave McMurtrie. IMAP Proxy project page at http://www.imapproxy.org⁠.

⁠License

This repo is licensed under MIT License⁠. IMAP Proxy is licensed under GNU GPL license⁠.