Hey, When Till Adam of KDE was in Bangalore to attend http://foss.in . Me and Partha had an initial discussion on having a relational database backend to store mails which can help us solve a lot of performance, memory and functional issues which we face today.
During a course of that discussion we were pointed towards Oryx ( http://www.oryx.com/mailstore/overview.html ) which uses RDBMS as a mail store. Also we have long been talking about a query'able mail store either working independently or as a part of Evolution-data-server, this has been unsuccessful due to limitations on the amount of data which can be transferred using dbus or bonobo as a bridge. As a consequence of that brainstorming and a few more among the kde-pim community. We have now the first documented proposal to solve the requirements. The initial set of requirements mostly contributed to by the kde-pim guys can be found here http://pim.kde.org/playground/osnabrueck4/requirements.html Also more importantly we are pleased to announce Akonadi: A PIM Storage Service with the mission statement. "We intend to design an extensible cross-desktop storage service for PIM data and meta data providing concurrent read, write, and query access. It will provide unique desktop wide object identification and retrieval" As the project seems to solve a lot of common problems which Evolution and Kontact share, its an ideal opportunity for the two projects to interact to arrive at a common desktop solution which could solve all our aches and bruises. http://pim.kde.org/playground/osnabrueck4/ Everyone interested in Akonadi are most welcome to join #akonadi on Freenode and help in taking this initiative further. Regards, Shreyas . -- _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
