[IMAP-153] JCR Storage structure uses files as imap folders hiding the structure and exposing the underlying storage to users (potentially)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.1
• Component/s: JCR Mailbox
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ian Boston
• Created: 08/Jun/10 08:46
• Updated: 22/Aug/10 17:40
• Resolved: 22/Aug/10 17:40

Description

Currently message and folder storage share the same single parent hierachy so that If I have 2 imap folders INBOX and INBOX/test the JCR node structure is

.../INBOX/2010/05/31/message121231

.../INBOX.test/2010/05/31/message345345

Which results in the date structure being part of the folder and the imap folder not being represented as a folder. It also means that messages really are moved, when they are moved.

The proposed layout is to move the folders into their own hierarchy and have the messages in a sepeate hierachy, still one per user

so a message in JCR looks like this (my uid is ieb)

...ieb/store/2010/06/08/message121243

• jamesMailboimapfolders = [
  a3de-34ed-2aef-2134-2e34,
  a3de-34ed-2aef-2134-2e35
  ]
  ....

and the folders like this
...ieb/INBOX

• rep:uuid = a3de-34ed-2aef-2134-2e34
  ...ieb/INBOX/test
• rep:uuid = a3de-34ed-2aef-2134-2e35

where jamesMailbox:imapfolders is a REFERENCE type in cnd
to list a folder, is a query
message121243 appears in both INBOX and INBOX/test

There would need to be some changes to the webdav classes/plugins to make this work in webdav.