[Dovecot] v3.0 architecture

[Peter Lindgren]

Timo Sirainen skrev:
> 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 :)

SOAP / BEEP: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3288.html

You will need to thread calls, waiting for long-running commands. Unless 
you switch to Erlang, of course :-)

If you don't overdo the XML document part, you can use your own 
implementation or use saxon (sp?) or another serial XML processor.

/Peter
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Peter Lindgren