Hi all, I want to propose some really heavy change in current JAMES trunk, and so next version. As all of you knows we are supporting IMAP in current development version, which ships with its own mail store backend called MailboxManager / Mailbox. For POP3 we use MailRepository as backend. I think this is a no go for a number of reasons, but the major one is that we should be able to switch between IMAP and POP3 without the need to migrate mails. So I rewrote the POP3Server to re-use the MailboxManager / Mailbox stuff which is used by IMAP.
So if a user login via POP3 he will just see the folder called INBOX and nothing else. With IMAP he will see all folders. Thats exactly what dovecot and courier does ( both heavy used unix imap/pop3 servers). Another advance is that we elimate one more dependency on storing mails via javamail, which is not the way to go for the future ... On the downside we will break backward-compatibility with every James release we did before. So we will need to write a "migration" tool, but this should not be to hard. Because the change is so heavy, I dedicited to attach it to JIRA for review and not commit it directly. You can find it here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-983 So what do you think ? Bye, Norman Ps: The performance it really better then with the "old" backend ;) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org
