[dovecot] Dovecot plans [was: IMAP Folder paths]

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 23:52, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> The notion of having the ~/Maildir/ be both a mailbox and the root of
> the folder tree is interesting (I understand it's not unique to dovecot),
> but limiting.  Ideally I would like to be able to specify:
..
> Can this be done?  Have I missed something?

Not yet, but they will once I add namespace configuration to config
file.

My Dovecot plans go something like:

0.99.9:
 - should come out ASAP because of ENVELOPE/BODYSTRUCTURE quoting bug
and SEARCH crashing in some conditions
 - I should store UIDs permanently somewhere else besides indexes
    - CVS already supports X-UID headers in mbox
    - I'd just have to make Courier-like uid database file, also
optionally using filename:2,flags,Uuid or filename,U=uid:2,flags style
 - LIST with Maildir is still a bit buggy. Either do a kludgy fix or
rewrite the whole thing once more.

0.99.10:
 - Version numbers got too high too soon :) I should rather be in 0.8..
 - Now that UIDs are stored permanently, I'm fully free to change the
index file format in any way I want. There's several optimizations that
I have in mind.
 - Much more optimized mbox rewriting, which requires a few index file
modifications
 - Several mbox-internal headers shouldn't be sent to client. To do this
fast, their locations should be stored to index
 - New config file format
 - Namespace support

0.99.11:
 - hopefully the large changes stop here and I could get towards 1.0..

1.0:
 - There hasn't been known bugs for at least a few months
 - I've fully audited the source code at least a few times and I'm sure
it doesn't have a single security hole in it :)

1.1:
 - Shared folders with ACL support
 - quota