looking for Cyrus mail format documentation

John Alton Tamplin jtampli at sph.emory.edu
Fri Jan 31 09:57:40 EST 2003


Earl R Shannon wrote:

> But that does now beg the question. There must be some form of
> coordination between the various processes as they access the
> mail store. Can this not be abstracted out and put in an API to
> make it easier for people to write their own applications?  I would
> venture a guess to say that the API already exists in some form,
> it just needs to be formalized and published.

The point is if you expose the internal API for accessing the mailstore 
you are stuck with it and can't make changes.  I can't imagine there is 
a big need for this or other people wanting to write code to implement 
that API, so if you really want to do this it is probably better as Rob 
suggested to just link to the Cyrus code that manipulates it (and watch 
for version skew between programs accessing the mail store).

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John A. Tamplin                               Unix System Administrator
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