[Dovecot] Plugin development question
Gary Smith
gary at holdstead.com
Sat Aug 25 02:34:00 EEST 2007
> I think you should begin with Dovecot v1.1 code which makes it a lot
> easier. It has Cydir format that is really simple and serves as a
> pretty good example of how to implement a new backend.
>
> Cydir is a mail_storage backend, but you'll probably need to also
> implement mailbox_list backend. Shouldn't be too difficult by looking
> at FS and Maildir++ backends I think.
>
> By database do you mean SQL or something else? I've beginnings of SQL
> backend plugin already, but I don't remember if it was for v1.0 code
or
> some version of v1.1. http://dovecot.org/patches/mail-sql.tar.gz
Timo,
Thanks for the information. I can't go too much into the project but
yes, SQL is one of the stores. This will definitely be helpful. I will
download the 1.1 codebase and also take a look at your mail-sql patch as
a foundation for what I'm doing.
Gary
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