Edit File: Design.txt
Dovecot Design ============== * <Overview of Dovecot processes> [Design.Processes.txt] * <Design of index files> [Design.Indexes.txt] * <API for accessing the index files> [Design.Indexes.MailIndexApi.txt] * <Design of authentication process> [Design.AuthProcess.txt] * <Authentication protocol> [Design.AuthProtocol.txt] * <Design of IMAP/POP3 processes> [Design.MailProcess.txt] * <Doveadm server protocol> [Design.DoveadmProtocol.txt] and <Doveadm HTTP server protocol> [Design.DoveadmProtocol.HTTP.txt] * <Doveadm synchronization> [Design.Dsync.txt] * <Dovecot Lua support> [Design.Lua.txt] Protocol extensions ------------------- * <Forwarding parameters in IMAP/POP3/LMTP/SMTP proxying> [Design.ParameterForwarding.txt] Code APIs --------- * <Code design> [Design.Code.txt] - explanations how and why the coding style is the way it is Look at the *.h files for the actual API documentation. The documentation below doesn't attempt to list full API documentation. liblib: * <Memory allocations> [Design.Memory.txt] * <Static/dynamic buffers> [Design.Buffers.txt] * <Dynamic arrays> [Design.Arrays.txt] * <String handling> [Design.Strings.txt] * <Input streams> [Design.InputStreams.txt] * <Output streams> [Design.OutputStreams.txt] * <Events> [Design.Events.txt] * <Plugins> [Design.Plugins.txt] lib-dcrypt: * <lib-dcrypt data formats> [Design.Dcrypt.txt] lib-storage: * <Mail user> [Design.Storage.MailUser.txt] contains everything related to a single user. * <Mail namespace> [Design.Storage.MailNamespace.txt]: A single user can contain multiple <namespaces> [Namespaces.txt]. * <Mailbox list> [Design.Storage.MailboxList.txt] is used to list/manage a list of mailboxes for a single namespace (1:1 relationship). * <Mail storage> [Design.Storage.MailStorage.txt] is used to access mails in a specific location with a specific mailbox format. Multiple namespaces can point to the same storage. A single namespace may in future (but not currently) point to multiple storages (e.g. a mixed mbox and Maildir directory). * <Mailbox> [Design.Storage.Mailbox.txt] is used to access a specific mailbox in a storage. * <Mail> [Design.Storage.Mail.txt] is used to access a specific mail in a mailbox. * <Error handling> [Design.Storage.ErrorHandling.txt]. * <Plugins> [Design.Storage.Plugins.txt] - how to hook into lib-storage functions. (This file was created from the wiki on 2019-02-05 04:42)
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