Hi,
I have some questions about dovecot-2.1 and need some advice about
software architecture.
My company plans to develop a kind of Document Managing System (DMS)
and one of its module is a webmail
that is currently in a pre-alpha stage (if you are curious you can have
a look here
http://kairos.smartmobili.com/ but don't be surprised if it doesn't
work and please
do not use IE for now).
From my personal analysis that I am sure is incomplete we have the
following options to handle
emails storage and cache:
1) Do not use a cache and rely on dovecot performance to retrieve
email's header in real time.
Actually don't know if it's that simple because we might need to
have a transformed version
of emails to be able to display them more easily in the webmail. In
this case this option is
not really possible.
2) Use new dovecot-2.1 imap backend and develop a kind of dummy imap
server listening to a custom port
and storing emails inside a mongoDB database. Advantage is it allow
replication very easily.
3) Wait for dovecot2.x to implement a NoSQL storage. Will it happen
soon ?
If you have other suggestions or ideas I would be happy to hear them.
Vincent R.
