[Dovecot] New mailbox API (was: New mailbox format)

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Friday, September 23, 2005 2:29 PM -0700 Dan Hollis 
<test3943395 at anime.net> wrote:

> Actually an idea i've had in mind for a while is something more akin to
> PAM, eg an end user definable plugin system for mailbox handling. dovecot
> etc would just use API calls to plugins. People can write whatever
> backend they want -- maildir, sql, even gdbm, csv, xml or WEBDAV if they
> feel like it. And anything could use the modules -- sendmail, postfix,
> procmail, etc.

Agreed. Defining an API would be more useful than defining a format. Then 
one could plug in delivery and access modules with different storage 
modules.