[Dovecot] Write a c program to access a mailbox as a system user using dovecot version 2 includes/libs

Jonathan Siegle jsiegle at psu.edu
Fri Aug 6 13:45:57 EEST 2010


On Aug 5, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 10:12 -0400, Jonathan Siegle wrote:
>> Should this be doable with the current design? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Is there a good reference to do this?
> 
> doveadm and dsync are good examples. Or maybe you shouldn't write a
> separate C program, but a doveadm plugin instead (see e.g. doveadm_quota
> plugin). http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Design has some docs.
> 
> 

 The first goal is to open these mailboxes(mdbox/dbox) with alpine version 2 and the mailboxes are on localhost.  So I will look at dsync. Both programs use master_service_* calls to start up something. Is that the design I should follow?
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