The overall goal is to create the modules necessary to build a highly flexible Drupal-based webmail solution, without 3rd party webmail projects, like RoundCube or whatever else, being involved...only Drupal and the mail servers.
The project is fairly new, and in the planning/alpha stages, right now. It would be awesome if there's anyone that would like to help work on these projects. I just setup a homepage for the planning/development of the project at http://mailapi.gcopenhaver.com. I setup a forum there, and we will be documenting things in books on the site as we go. As of a couple days ago, there's two of us working on this project so far.
The modules:
Mail API will provide both an abstraction layer for front-end webmail user interface modules (or whatever else people come up with that could use the API) and a hooking system for back-end modules that will communicate with mail servers.
IMAP API is a back-end module (obviously for communication with IMAP servers), which will implement the Mail API hooks.
Webmail is a front-end module that will provide a webmail interface for users to access their email accounts, and will use API from Mail API to access the mail server.
Feedback about any features or other ideas would be great! Volunteers for helping develop this project would be super awesome! (see http://mailapi.gcopenhaver.com for developing)
