RFC: HTTP based storage API

[Timo Sirainen]

On 08 Feb 2016, at 12:56, Nagy, Attila <bra at fsn.hu> wrote:
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> On 02/08/16 11:16, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> Oh, you were thinking about ability to provide IMAP/etc support for other random servers, and have Dovecot act as kind of a middleware and translate the requests. Maybe the answer is still jmap though? It would require jmap lib-storage backend similar to imapc, which would be doable, although not really something we're right now planning to implement.
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> Yeah, the opposite, in this case a jmap backend to Dovecot.
> BTW, I think jmap is too high level and implementing a jmap server is very much like implementing an IMAP one.
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> I much more think of a pluggable, easy (remote) storage API, which has much less to do with IMAP, but can offer capabilities, which can help Dovecot (like the search and indexes).

What kind of use cases are you thinking for this remote storage API? What kind of remote storages would implement it, and what kind of installations would use them?