[Dovecot] v3.0 architecture

[Aria Stewart]

>
> The big problem is what the protocol should be. Use some existing  
> RPC protocol? It should be something extensible so that a plugin in  
> imap process can talk to a plugin in storage process, without the  
> base processes knowing anything about the details (e.g. imap-quota  
> plugin asking quota usage from storage's quota plugin). In any case  
> the client side API should be asynchronous. That can make it  
> annoyingly difficult to use though. Wonder if I could switch to  
> erlang or something for the imap/pop3 processes :)

process-to-process D-Bus!
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