Overview

Dovecot Design

• Overview of Dovecot processes
• Design of Index Files
  • API for Accessing the Index Files
• Design of Authentication Process
  • Authentication Protocol
• Doveadm Server Protocol and Doveadm HTTP API
• Doveadm Synchronization
• Dovecot Lua Support
• Dovecot Dict Protocol

Protocol Extensions

• Forwarding Parameters in IMAP/POP3/LMTP/SMTP Proxying

Code APIs

• coding style - 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
• Static/Dynamic Buffers
• Dynamic Arrays
• String Handling
• Input Streams
• Output Streams
• Events
• Plugins

lib-dcrypt:

• lib-dcrypt Data Formats

lib-storage:

• Mail User contains everything related to a single user.
• Mail Namespace A single user can contain multiple namespaces.
• Mailbox List is used to list/manage a list of mailboxes for a single namespace (1:1 relationship).
• Mail Storage 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 is used to access a specific mailbox in a storage.
• Mail is used to access a specific mail in a mailbox.
• Error Handling
• Plugins - how to hook into lib-storage functions.