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On 27/05/15 12:42, Clint Byrum wrote:
>
> == Crazy idea section ==
>
> One thing I never had a chance to discuss with any of the Zaqar devs that
> I would find interesting is an email-only backend for Zaqar. Basically
> make Zaqar an HTTP-to-email gateway. There are quite a few hyper-scale
> options for SMTP and IMAP, and they're inherently multi-tenant, so I'd
> find it interesting to see if the full Zaqar API could be mapped onto
> that. This would probably be more comfortable to scale for some deployers
> than Redis or MongoDB, and might have the nice side-effect that a deployer
> could expose IMAP IDLE for efficient end-user subscription,

Can you guarantee delivery end-to-end (and still get the scaling 
benefits)? Because AIUI SMTP is only best effort, and that makes this 
idea a non-starter IMHO.

cheers,
Zane.