[imp] Direct Maildir Access

[Andrew Morgan]

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Greg Swift wrote:

> Based on my research the only webmail I've ever found that directly
> access maildir is sqwebmail, which looks horrible, and is not nearly as
> nice as horde, nor will it probably ever be.  As certain technologies
> move forwad (GFS and clustering specifically) I think it would be an
> amazing enhancement if there was a backend option of direct maildir
> instead of just accessing via POP and IMAP.  I realize that that layer
> adds some nice features and lessens some of the coding, but does anyone
> else think this would be a nice addition? Heck, I realize that sqwebmail
> accomplishes this by using a library of c code written to access the
> directory structure, which if you are not using virtual users means suid
> root, but with any large virtual users system, this  wouldnt be a big
> deal, and could probably be forked into a seperate lib and utilized.

What would be the benefits of direct maildir access?

 	Andy