[Dovecot] 1.0 roadmap

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 08:08, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyway looking at my current TODO, I think the following things should
> > > be fixed before v1.0. Additions, comments, patches and such welcome. :)
> > 
> > Just in case it got lost, I'll repeat the request for a mode where
> > mail delivery normally happens in mbox format but users can
> > optionally have maildir storage and dovecot would transparently
> > move system deliveries into the maildir INBOX.  Pop users
> > who download/delete probably wouldn't bother, imap users
> > with large mailboxes probably would.
> 
> So, a mode in which dovecot looks at /var/mail/user and moves the mails
> into maildir whenever user logs in?

Not just when they log in - it should be monitored for
new deliveries.

>  I think that belongs to the same
> category of features as "move /var/mail/user into ~/mbox" and possibly
> even the same as "fetch mails using POP3 from another server for the
> INBOX automatically". All of these are very low on my TODO list.

>From dovecot's perspective it should serve most of the same purposes
as an LDA in terms of not having deliveries screw up your
indexes and you must already have functions to do all the
low-level gunk.  What's the down side?

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com