cyrus-imapd

I tried reading the documentation, which is awfully sparse, to see how to use the hash table and if it would be a good replacement for the current one in cyrus-imapd. The destroy function in cyrus-imapd has both a destroy that takes a cleanup function for values, and an interator: https://github.com/brong/cyrus-imapd/blob/master/lib/hash.c I couldn't see how to do either with this library until reading the source code I see you can set a mem_free at creation instead. The documentation didn't really describe that, and the example is actively wrong. I see from the code that there's a way to get the keys, from which you can do an external iterator. It's less efficient, but it works. You wouldn't know that from the documentation though, you have to read the source code.

Yeah, it's a real shame that Fastmail isn't doing any open source or trying to improve email standards for the entire internet https://github.com/fastmail https://github.com/brong/cyrus-imapd/ http://jmap.io/

I wrote a crash-safe fast recovery skiplist on-disk key-value store called Twoskip for Cyrus IMAP: https://github.com/brong/cyrus-imapd/blob/master/lib/cyrusdb... I'll be talking about it at LCA in Geelong next year :) Skiplists are definitely awesome.

very much working to expand the standards to meet the needs of modern e-mail. Obligatory links: https://github.com/brong/cyrus-imapd/tree/fastmail http://jmap.io/

That's because providing a service like this really sucks the life out of you. The theory was that we could either drive people towards the paying accounts, or monetize the accounts some other way. The stats said - free accounts very rarely converted to paying accounts. All the monitizing options for people with free accounts are pretty creepy, even text-only ads were bad. We hated that. So we turned off free accounts. FastMail only provides paid accounts, and in exchange we don't need to look for another business model - we take payment in exchange for providing an awesome service and everybody is happy. ... and per the estimated price of $0.30/yr for 2Gb storage - our costs are much higher than that. On the other hand we have 3 full copies of every email store, two in one datacentre and one in another - and each of them is on RAID1

I was falling out of love with Gmail, and at that time I was reading their site or a post regarding them on HN. Once I saw brong's Github branch as mentioned, I was sold and got an account. https://github.com/brong/cyrus-imapd Their public communication, blog, old Slashdot interviews, everything else are a gold standard to me. Bought a VPS to stand up my own backup Cyrus server. By the way, Cyrus IMAP server has a beta CalDAV and CardDAV integration, where your contacts and calendars are stored in special IMAP folders and then pulled into the proper protocol. Through Fastmail I learned this might be the best self-contained communication platform for me and others. Just a FYI. http://www.cyrusimap.org/mediawiki/index.php/Downloads#IMAP_...

I like the use of Dovecot, but I got tired of resource consumption with OwnCloud, despite it being a very, very cool project (and Android not speaking CardDav or CalDav natively, sigh; the ONE thing that makes me like iOS). In any event, I have been looking into Cyrus IMAP because a) it used by Fastmail, they even host their forked version of the code [0] and b) there is a alpha-beta feature right now for a CardDAV and CalDav server baked in. [1] Maybe I can try and work on my own sovereign-like setup with this. [0] https://github.com/brong/cyrus-imapd/tree/fastmail [1] http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Latest_Upda...

Under the hood it's all Cyrus IMAPd server with a ton of customisations (seriously, it's a lot - it's kind of getting out of hand - I need to tidy some up and push them back upstream) The code we run in production is all available to anyone who wants to play with it, though the usual caveats about "it's not particularly well tested for any configurations other than exactly the one we run" apply. https://github.com/brong/cyrus-imapd/branches/fastmail brong@prin:~/src/cyrus-imapd$ git log --oneline cmu/master..HEAD | wc -l 632 brong@prin:~/src/cyrus-imapd$ git diff cmu/master HEAD | diffstat | tail -n 1 149 files changed, 39060 insertions(+), 4314 deletions(-)