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That would be the second party.

The first party is on my lawn.

And the third party that wrote the mail client you are using?

Not to say that this isn't a bad idea though. It would have been an easier sell if you could do the IMAP proxying on the local device somehow.

> It would have been an easier sell if you could do the IMAP proxying on the local device somehow.

This should be easy to run an background proxy under Android. Not sure if this is possible under iOS7 though.

And the third party that wrote your operating system's networking stack? And your ISP?

And Ken Thompson?

...wuift is why we host our own mailservers :)!