Webmail.us will be sponsoring my Dovecot development for this summer. Other companies are also welcome to participate in the costs. Participation gets you:
- listed in Credits in www.dovecot.org
- listed in AUTHORS file
- you can tell me how you want to use the feature and I'll make sure that it supports it (within reasonable limits)
For already implemented v1.1 features, see http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-April/021974.html
Some of those features require some more testing (new SORT and THREAD code especially) and a bit of fixes to mailbox list indexes. Otherwise I think it's working pretty well already, I've been using it for a long time for my own mails.
Upcoming v1.1 features, more or less implemented in this order:
- Index file optimizations: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-May/022591.html
- Less indexing for POP3 users (both in pop3 and in deliver)
- Replace Squat FTS indexes with my new design
- Configurable mail_log plugin
- Limit number of connections for a user
- A combined LIST + STATUS command (or possibly NOTIFY extension? http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gulbrandsen-imap-notify-03)
- Fully supported shared mailboxes and IMAP ACL extension: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-April/021624.html
- Remote (shared) mailboxes. Automatic proxying, but possibly also support for MAILBOX-REFERRALS extension if it's not much extra trouble (few clients support it, so probably not worth the trouble unless it can be done in a couple of hours)
- Remove unused keywords from mailboxes
- Some other small things
Upcoming v1.1/v1.2/v2.0 features (planned to be implemented at the end of the summer):
- virtual mailboxes: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-May/022828.html
- dbox redesign: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-May/022602.html
Implementing the above features will keep me busy for most of the summer, but there have also been requests for replication support (http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-May/022792.html). I'm interested in implementing it as well, but unfortunately it looks like I don't have time for it at least for the next 3 months or so.
There's already at least one company that's willing to pay for replication, but if you're also interested please let me know. Perhaps someone else could implement it instead (if you're interested, please let me know), or if not it'll just have to wait until I have time for it.