> On May 10, 2017, at 5:16 PM, Sami Ketola <sami.ket...@dovecot.fi> wrote:
>
>
>> On 10 May 2017, at 16.26, KT Walrus <ke...@my.walr.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> # curl -v -X POST -u doveadm:hellodoveadm -H "Content-Type:
>>> application/json" -d
>>> '[["save",{"user":"samik","mailbox":"INBOX/myfoldertoo","file":"From: Joulu
>>> Pukki <joulu.pu...@korvatunturi.fi>\nSubject: plaa\n\nmail body\n"},"bb"]]'
>>> http://localhost:8080/doveadm/v1
>>
>> Thanks. I worry that by inlining the entire message in the curl command, the
>> message might exceed some limits on how long a command can be. Some of my
>> messages are up to 20MBs with the attachments and 1MB messages are very
>> common. I also worry about the raw message having unescaped quotes in the
>> message messing up to actual storage of the message in the INBOX. Are HTML
>> mail messages encoded to be safe to enclose in quotations? Or, should I
>> encode the entire mail message and trust that Dovecot can handle decoding
>> the message in the back end?
>
>
> The question is: why do you want to deliver 20MB messages with doveadm http
> api? I would not replace LMTP with that.
I could certainly end up using SMTP/LMTP, but in my case I need complete
control over when, where, and how messages are delivered. The IMAP interface
gives me that control, but the Doveadm HTTP API seems easier and I can do
operations that span all users with this API. So, I don’t need to worry as much
about scaling (since I think IMAP is limited to one user at a time per
connection).
If the Doveadm HTTP API isn’t mature enough or have a PHP interface (like
Roundcube gives me for IMAP), I may have to just go with IMAP or SMTP. SMTP is
a whole lot easier from PHP of my 3 options, but only handles new message
delivery and not the other admin actions I need to do. Eventually, I want to
hire some programmers to code my admin app in Go and move to a micro-services
architecture, but to start out, when scaling isn’t that important, I’m coding
the mail admin app in PHP (since Roundcube Framework gives me a lot of mail
handling classes that are mature and well tested).
Kevin
