IMAP back end

[Daira Hopwood]

On 01/11/14 12:39, Lukas Pirl wrote:
> Dear David,
> 
> to make sure we are on the same page: I did not propose to store IMAP
> data in Tahoe but to store Tahoe's data on IMAP.

I don't think that's a particularly good fit. The existing backends
assume a storage system that can store data at arbitrary keys; IMAP
can't do that, since message UIDs are 32-bit integers. (You could
maybe hack this using mailbox names as keys, but that still seems
like a bad fit.)

-- 
Daira Hopwood ⚥

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