From: jdugan@es.net (Jon Dugan)
Subject: [sup-talk] GSoC Project of Interest
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:35:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1240449619-sup-9301@junction.es.net> (raw)
There's an GSoC project that may be of interest to folks on this list. It's
aim is to add Gmail/sup like features to the Plan 9 mail system called upas.
This might end up creating something an awful lot like Sup the Service Not
identical for sure, but there is at least some overlap in terms of aims and
ideas.
Most services on Plan 9 are implemented as synthetic file systems. The
synthetic filesystem that represents email on Plan 9 is known as upas. upas
provides a filesytem view of mail boxes regardless of their backend storage
medium (eg, POP, IMAP, etc) which provides a nice clean separation between the
code that you use to do useful things to your mail and the code that deals
with the mail store itself.
To quote the man page:
The mailbox itself becomes a directory under /mail/fs. Each message in the
mailbox becomes a numbered directory in the mailbox directory, and each
attachment becomes a numbered directory in the message directory. Since an
attachment may itself be a mail message, this structure can recurse ad
nauseam.
Each message and attachment directory contains the files:
body the message minus the RFC822 style headers
cc the address(es) from the CC: header
date the date in the message, or if none, the time of delivery
digest an SHA1 digest of the message contents
subject the contents of the subject line
.
. etc
.
Here's the manpage for upas:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/4/upasfs
The GSoC project:
http://socghop.appspot.com/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/plan9/t124024225207
There's a ton of interesting and powerful stuff in Plan 9.
I'm hoping this will provide some useful ideas for Sup the Service.
Jon
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