RFC: HTTP based storage API

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Zitat von Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:

> On 08 Feb 2016, at 11:01, Nagy, Attila <bra at fsn.hu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Nearly every popular programming language has an LMTP/POP/IMAP  
>> implementation, most of them suck in many different ways.
>> I don't know any server or library which provides a  
>> well-established, compatible protocol frontend with an open backend  
>> API, which could be used to easily make a custom storage backend  
>> for the LMTP/POP/IMAP frontend in any language, in any programming  
>> paradigm, irregardless of the frontend implementation.
>>
>> Dovecot is very close to this: it speaks IMAP to the backend, but  
>> you still have to make a nearly complete IMAP implementation, which  
>> is a PITA.
>>
>> Therefore I am curious about your opinion: what about an HTTP-based  
>> open backend (lib-storage) API to Dovecot?
>
> We're planning on implementing http://jmap.io/ to Dovecot v2.3. It's  
> close enough to how Dovecot works internally (although we'd still  
> need the threading support) and also at least attempting to become a  
> standard. We haven't really started it yet though, so now would be a  
> good time to give any alternative suggestions or complaints about  
> jmap :)

That would be a cool feature, Thanks.

Andreas


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