On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 12:29 +0200, Aspra Flavius Adrian wrote: > I intend to write a new virtual backend for dovecot. Are there any hacking > docs describing how the code is organized, eventually also important structs > and how to hook myself into the system, or do I have to go the classical > way?
Unfortunately there are no docs yet. But the important files to read are: src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h src/lib-storage/mail-storage-private.h src/lib-storage/mailbox-list.h src/lib-storage/mailbox-list-private.h Are you implementing a filesystem based backend or some database based backend? The mailbox-list needs to be implemented only for databases. src/lib-storage/index/cydir/ shows a really simple backend implementation that can work as an example, even if you're not using filesystem. For SQL there's a really old example that no longer works, but might be helpful: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-November/026632.html Also the newer the Dovecot version is, the simpler it is to implement a backend. For example the number of lines of code in cydir is: v1.1: 1260 lines v1.2: 1282 lines (some more features added) v2.0: 1119 lines (even more features, but still less code)
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