Idea: IMAP Server

Implement an evented IMAP::Server in Celluloid.

Type: New System

Mentor: @digitalextremist

Similarly to how Celluloid::DNS provides a bare-bones DNS Server, and Reel provides a bare-bones HTTP/S and WebSocket server, write a bare-bones IMAP Server using Celluloid::IO, in pure Ruby.

There are many existing servers offering IMAP services, but these tend to be extremely large applications which are slow, use a tremendous amount of resources, and which fail to progress as the internet evolves.

A Celluloid::IO based IMAP server could become a light-weight and yet highly robust and modifiable internet protocol server for email, like Reel is for the Web.