'asimap' is a python IMAP server that uses python's mailbox module to provide the backing store. This lets us export things like an MH mail store via IMAP. Actually the way it is coded right now it ONLY support 'mailbox.MH' style folders.

We go to various lengths to actually work alongside currently running MH clients accessing the same files at the same time.

It uses a multiprocess model where there is a main server process running as root and for any logged in user there is a sub-process running as that user. If a user logs in via more than one mail client all of their connections will be handled by the same sub-process. Sub-processes stick around for a short while after a user disconnects to avoid startup time if they connect again within, say, 30 minutes.

This is not a high performance server being pure python and it is not a highly scaleable one requiring a process for every logged in user.