[Dovecot] SIS Implementation

[Daniel L. Miller]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 11:28 -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>   
>> What would be involved in implementing SIS within Dovecot?  A new or 
>> modified mailbox format?
>>     
>
> It could be added to dbox without too much trouble. I already kind of
> planned for it:
>
> 	/* Pointer to external message data. Format is:
> 	   1*(<start offset> <byte count> <ref>) */
> 	DBOX_METADATA_EXT_REF		= 'X',
>
> Nothing uses that yet though. So what you'd need is:
>   
Now do we need to implement some kind of external database for tracking 
the attachments between mailboxes?  Any thoughts on what that should 
look like?

-- 
Daniel