[dovecot] Re: 0.99.6rc3

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Jan 13 21:00:14 EET 2003


On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 17:53, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 22:34, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > > so two things - can you make it possible to drop in replace
> > > uw-imapd/ipopd by having a pop3 daemon come along w/it 
> > 
> > Yes, I think. pop3 should so simple enough to write in a few hours,
> > unless I have to redesign some interfaces for accessing mail. I'll read
> > the pop3 spec and see then.
> 
> Well, it requires a few changes it seems. Another related problem is
> that with mbox we should hide some of the message headers, with current
> code that'd messy and slow. I've also thought about supporting SQL
> databases to store mails, but a bit too much of the logic is index
> file-specific now.
> 
> So, time for a cleanup to fix all these at once. FETCH and SEARCH are
> the only commands whose logic should be moved, after that the
> lib-storage won't have hardly any IMAP specific features anymore. Any
> other protocols that we could support? :)
> 

well if you're bored and feel like working on an acap server I'm sure no
one would be pissed. ;)

-sv

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