dovecot - Feb 2008 - Doubt on adding support for new mailbox format

Hi!

I'm starting to read and play with dovecot since a month ago.
But my mailboxes' format is hashdir, which has been implemented here by
my team. Here:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat

I've noticed that

"Adding support for new formats for Dovecot isn't very difficult, 
although it can be time consuming. Dovecot exposes a nice and simple API 
which needs to be implemented"

But I couldn't find that API. I've read the documentation so many times 
but have not found. Can you help me?

Thanks a lot!

-- 
Armando Adami Zaro
Canopus Inform?tica Ltda
Porto Alegre - RS - Brasil
+55 51 3062-2404

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 08:20 -0200, Armando Adami Zaro
wrote:
> "Adding support for new formats for Dovecot isn't very difficult, 
> although it can be time consuming. Dovecot exposes a nice and simple API 
> which needs to be implemented"
> 
> But I couldn't find that API. I've read the documentation so many
times
> but have not found. Can you help me?
First of all don't bother trying to add it to v1.0. It's a lot easier in
v1.1.

So in v1.1 the APIs are in src/lib-storage/mail-storage-private.h and
src/lib-storage/mailbox-list-private.h. A lot of these can be
implemented using the generic functions in src/lib-storage/index/*. Only
if you're using something like a SQL server as backend you might want to
override things like searching and mailbox listing.

src/lib-storage/index/cydir/ implements a really simple Cydir backend in
1200 lines. That would be a good starting place to look.

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