I second this, I had looked for something that would allow dovecot to work directly with ceph a few years back rather than using something like mdbox on top of cephfs. I saw a few people who had interest in something like this, I'm surprised I haven't seen more about it, seems like a very good coupling. Hard to find the time to devote I guess. On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 6:14 AM, Wido den Hollander <wido@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Recently Dovecot merged with OpenXchange as announced here: > http://www.dovecot.fi/open-xchange-and-dovecot-announce-merger-to-create-worlds-leading-open-source-messaging-software-provider/ > > In the past few years I've contacted Dovecot a couple of times because > it would be very, very cool to have your e-mail stored via native RADOS. > > They thought it was a very cool idea, but since they had closed source > Object Store plugins for Dovecot like Scality they couldn't allow RADOS > to be implemented for Object Mail storage. > > My idea is basically: Dovecot -> libmailrados -> librados -> Ceph > > Now that OpenXchange acquired Dovecot it might be that this possibility > opens up! > > Just wanted to get this out there. I currently won't be able to look > into this, but it would be very cool if this happens. > > -- > Wido den Hollander > 42on B.V. > Ceph trainer and consultant > > Phone: +31 (0)20 700 9902 > Skype: contact42on > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
