RFC: HTTP based storage API

[Nagy, Attila]

On 02/08/16 11:44, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> that sounds like s3 API based backend.
>
> also note that dovecot comes with some "non local mail storage plugins"
> in the commercial part:
>
> ```
> In this release, we support Windows Azure, Amazon S3, Scality and
> Dropbox systems.
> ```
>
> so that should come close to what you want. for a local version you
> could use e.g. radosdb/ceph or riak. both can provide the s3 API for
> you.
>
Close, but this may be too low level, for example it may hide whose 
e-mail do you store (I don't know the exact implementation, it's not 
open source AFAIK).