Aaron Stone wrote:
Actually I was really only going to fork if things didn't go my way. The mail management system idea I thought was pretty good, then you can molt it to your needs. I never thought upstream would like the idea. I could probably finish the code for dlopen later so you could easily swap modules in and out without issues. I have been working on an ODBC driver for this for a little while, I think I am actually getting somewhere on it atm.Your goals sound really good. But as for the plan... Are you forking because you want a different code structure or because you want a completely independent project that is not going to be compatible with mainline DBMail?
I need to remind myself to cleanup the headers so you can setup an include distribution for writing extensions to dbmail. Essentially any person could write their own filtering system as a module to dbmail. This will finally allow for a dbmail-common package in debian which is heavily needed. I think its getting pretty ugly and so is the rules file ;)After 2.0, we're planning on changing the database structure to better handle header and mime caching, as well as a few other refinements. I'm more than sure that people here would like to see a "libdbmail.so" that exposed the message delivery and retrieval functions, and still have those functions be shared with the real DBMail to maintain compatibility. Don't fork to add features that people in the mainline want, too.
The sbin patch was necessary. When was the last time you saw a daemon that had to bind < 1024 in /usr/bin?
Online management of the databases directly through libdbmail.so and a GUI api interface would probably be popular.Aaron Dan Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [snip]... I started working at this because I plan to fork dbmail as soon as it hits a solid 2.0 release. I was going to split it more into a mail management system and take away the pop and imap. Then I would provide libraries and headers to write frontends to it.
Dan Weber
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