[Kolab-devel] IMAP and email as storage protocol (Re: "questions and critical comments")

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Freitag, 4. Juni 2010 18:15:07 schrieb Gunnar Wrobel:
> I'm not 100% certain what the original idea behind storing the  
> groupware data in IMAP was.

The original designer of the idea was Martin Konold.
We wanted to be very scalable, robust and secure.

See this old FAQ entry for the scalability idea:
http://kroupware.kolab.org/faq/faq.html#Kolab Server0
On the robustness side we wanted proven components, 
Cyrus IMAPd was known to server hundered thousands of email folders 
even around year 2000 and widely deployed. We were reusing a security model
with the IMAP ACLs. Security with general purpose databases usually is a 
nightmare, so in using a special purposes database we are faster and more 
secure.

Bernhard

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