[Dovecot] New mailbox format

[Tom Metro]

Dan Hollis wrote:
> Tom Metro wrote:
>>> Tom Metro wrote:
>>>> Any way you slice it, though, these are just approximations of a 
>>>> database server. Maybe embedding SQLite (just for indexes) is the 
>>>> answer?
>>>
>>> /etc/pmm.d/dovecot   /lib/mail/pmm_sql.so   ?
>>
>> What is pmm?
> 
> a proposal.

Ah. I wondered if that might have been the case, but it wasn't clear, 
particularly from the text you quoted.


> the idea is a system of pluggable mail modules for mail programs exactly 
> the same way ssh/apache/dovecot/su/login/etc handle authentication via pam.
> 
> http://pam.sourceforge.net/

Sure.

More likely something like /usr/lib/dovecot/*.so initially, until you 
can convince other projects to buy-in to the API.

  -Tom