RFC: HTTP based storage API

[Marcus Rueckert]

On 2016-02-08 12:31:57 +0100, Nagy, Attila wrote:
> 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).

True ... but that might be the hook point you can use for your more
fancy implementation. and some of the mail backends are public. like
mdbox and so on. the api towards dovecot should be the same.

    darix

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