Different type of message store

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Harrie Hazewinkel wrote:

> I was wondering if some one could point me in the right direction
> in order to look at the message store API. I would like to see

Depending on how much of the message store API you mean, you're looking at
atleast index.c, append.c, and mailbox.c.

If you want to worry about the mailbox list, mboxlist.c.

If you want seen state as well, seen_db.c.

You'll probably want to look at user.c as well.

> what must be done in order to have a different message store backend
> that contains the email messages.

A very large amount of work.

I wouldn't be surprised if alot of the other code has assumptions about
the implementation of the mail store in it that will break if you try to
change its implemenation, so the above list is just a start.

-Rob

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