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Re: db or similar store, anyone?
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Ian Zimmerman |
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Re: db or similar store, anyone? |
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30 Jun 2004 00:36:36 -0700 |
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Ian> Another objection is that there is no way to _inject_ an article in
Ian> IMAP, because it's wired for mail; one has to do some side trick in
Ian> the mail transport to make posted articles appear in the IMAP
Ian> store. Or am I wrong?
Christopher> The IMAP APPEND command is used to create new messages in a
Christopher> mailbox.
Hmm OK you're right. I was misled by the following sentence at the start of
RFC 1730:
IMAP4 does not specify a means of posting mail; this function is
handled by a mail transfer protocol such as [SMTP].
Christopher> If the end goal is a fast database store, investigate
Christopher> DB-backed IMAP servers. (But Please, Eris, Not ZF
Christopher> Rkpunatr).
Ian> What and where are these? All I know about is dbmail, and the SQL
Ian> databases it connects to are definitely overkill.
Christopher> Well, there's the one I mention above (rot 13), which I am not
Christopher> seriously advocating.
LOL. And what's Eris?
Christopher> UW-IMAP has a pluggable backend mechanism, so a DB backend
Christopher> could be created there without needing to implement IMAP
Christopher> from scratch.
Interesting. I will look at it, too.
--
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