RFC: HTTP based storage API

Nagy, Attila bra at fsn.hu
Fri Feb 12 07:58:28 UTC 2016


On 02/11/16 03:50, David Niklas wrote:
> On 08 Feb 2016, at 11:01, Nagy, Attila <bra at fsn.hu> wrote:
>> 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.
> Sorry to come in late, but as a curl lover I'd like to know what is wrong
> with their implementation of pop3 and imap (project homepage
> curl.haxx.se).
>
Well, most of the time it quickly turns out these are just partial 
addons, with so basic bugs, like #1456 was.
There is a reason why postfix, dovecot and others have so many man-hours 
in them.
BTW, this is about a server implementation...


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