Earl R Shannon wrote:
But that does now beg the question. There must be some form of
coordination between the various processes as they access the
mail store. Can this not be abstracted out and put in an API to
make it easier for people to write their own applications? I would
venture a guess to say that the API already exists in some form,
it just needs to be formalized and published.
The point is if you expose the internal API for accessing the mailstore
you are stuck with it and can't make changes. I can't imagine there is
a big need for this or other people wanting to write code to implement
that API, so if you really want to do this it is probably better as Rob
suggested to just link to the Cyrus code that manipulates it (and watch
for version skew between programs accessing the mail store).
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