On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 12:57 -0700, Gary Smith wrote:
Hello,
From what I have read on the dovecot site, it's possible to create a plugin for a custom data store format. We have emails in a custom format in a database and would like to create a plugin for accessing these emails through dovecot.
Is there any supporting documentation from creating a plugin like this? Are there any samples?
I think you should begin with Dovecot v1.1 code which makes it a lot easier. It has Cydir format that is really simple and serves as a pretty good example of how to implement a new backend.
Cydir is a mail_storage backend, but you'll probably need to also implement mailbox_list backend. Shouldn't be too difficult by looking at FS and Maildir++ backends I think.
By database do you mean SQL or something else? I've beginnings of SQL backend plugin already, but I don't remember if it was for v1.0 code or some version of v1.1. http://dovecot.org/patches/mail-sql.tar.gz