[Dovecot] Mongo backend for userdb and passdb

[Damien Churchill]

On 20 March 2013 10:39, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 10:29 +0000, Damien Churchill wrote:
>
>> I've been messing about with this and I think a similar configuration
>> format to the sql dict driver would be handy, although I imagine the
>> same could also be achieved with just lots of uri arguments. Mongo
>> isn't really a key/value store so you'd want to be able to specify
>> fields within the document to query upon/fetch.
>>
>> I'm still getting to grips with the architecture of things so not
>> entirely sure what the best course of action would be here. If using
>> the map style config would be desirable then creating some shared
>> parser that sql and mongodb can use would be good.
>
> I've been planning on having one generic dict sql-like configuration for
> all dict backends, so you could map different dict paths to different
> backends. So the idea is good, but probably quite a lot of work.
>

Would it not be just some bastardised version of dict-sql-settings?