Re: [Dovecot] Write a c program to access a mailbox as a system user using dovecot version 2 includes/libs

2010-08-06 Thread Jonathan Siegle
On Aug 5, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 10:12 -0400, Jonathan Siegle wrote: Should this be doable with the current design? Yes. Is there a good reference to do this? doveadm and dsync are good examples. Or maybe you shouldn't write a separate C

Re: [Dovecot] Write a c program to access a mailbox as a system user using dovecot version 2 includes/libs

2010-08-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 6.8.2010, at 11.45, Jonathan Siegle wrote: The first goal is to open these mailboxes(mdbox/dbox) with alpine version 2 and the mailboxes are on localhost. Why? Why not just let it use IMAP? Seems like a huge amount of work to make c-client call lib-storage. And who knows how many symbol

Re: [Dovecot] Write a c program to access a mailbox as a system user using dovecot version 2 includes/libs

2010-08-06 Thread Marcus Rueckert
On 2010-08-06 12:28:28 +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 6.8.2010, at 11.45, Jonathan Siegle wrote: The first goal is to open these mailboxes(mdbox/dbox) with alpine version 2 and the mailboxes are on localhost. Why? Why not just let it use IMAP? Seems like a huge amount of work to make

Re: [Dovecot] Write a c program to access a mailbox as a system user using dovecot version 2 includes/libs

2010-08-06 Thread Jonathan Siegle
On Aug 6, 2010, at 7:28 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 6.8.2010, at 11.45, Jonathan Siegle wrote: The first goal is to open these mailboxes(mdbox/dbox) with alpine version 2 and the mailboxes are on localhost. Why? Why not just let it use IMAP? Seems like a huge amount of work to make

Re: [Dovecot] Write a c program to access a mailbox as a system user using dovecot version 2 includes/libs

2010-08-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 10:16 -0400, Jonathan Siegle wrote: The end goal is for my Webmail client to access dovecot mailboxes. Does it make more sense to do the more traditional route of making Webmail an IMAP client? Yes. There's almost zero performance benefit for accessing mails via

[Dovecot] Write a c program to access a mailbox as a system user using dovecot version 2 includes/libs

2010-08-05 Thread Jonathan Siegle
Should this be doable with the current design? Is there a good reference to do this? Thanks, Jonathan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [Dovecot] Write a c program to access a mailbox as a system user using dovecot version 2 includes/libs

2010-08-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 10:12 -0400, Jonathan Siegle wrote: Should this be doable with the current design? Yes. Is there a good reference to do this? doveadm and dsync are good examples. Or maybe you shouldn't write a separate C program, but a doveadm plugin instead (see e.g. doveadm_quota