dovecot - Feb 2016 - RFC: HTTP based storage API

On 08 Feb 2016, at 11:01, Nagy, Attila <bra at fsn.hu> wrote: 
> Nearly every popular programming language has an LMTP/POP/IMAP
> implementation, most of them suck in many different ways.
> I don't know any server or library which provides a well-established,
> compatible protocol frontend with an open backend API, which could be
> used to easily make a custom storage backend for the LMTP/POP/IMAP
> frontend in any language, in any programming paradigm, irregardless
> of the frontend implementation.
Sorry to come in late, but as a curl lover I'd like to know what is wrong
with their implementation of pop3 and imap (project homepage
curl.haxx.se).

Thanks, David

On 02/11/16 03:50, David Niklas wrote:
> On 08 Feb 2016, at 11:01, Nagy, Attila <bra at fsn.hu> wrote:
>> Nearly every popular programming language has an LMTP/POP/IMAP
>> implementation, most of them suck in many different ways.
>> I don't know any server or library which provides a
well-established,
>> compatible protocol frontend with an open backend API, which could be
>> used to easily make a custom storage backend for the LMTP/POP/IMAP
>> frontend in any language, in any programming paradigm, irregardless
>> of the frontend implementation.
> Sorry to come in late, but as a curl lover I'd like to know what is
wrong
> with their implementation of pop3 and imap (project homepage
> curl.haxx.se).
>
Well, most of the time it quickly turns out these are just partial 
addons, with so basic bugs, like #1456 was.
There is a reason why postfix, dovecot and others have so many man-hours 
in them.
BTW, this is about a server implementation...