Description:

Email::Store is the ideal basis for any application which needs to
deal with databases of email: archiving, searching, or even storing
mail for implementing IMAP or POP3 servers.

Email::Store itself is a very lightweight framework, meaning it does
not provide very much functionality itself; in effect, it is merely a
Class::DBI interface to a database schema which is designed for
storing email. Incidentally, if you don't know much about Class::DBI,
you're going to need to in order to get much out of this.

Despite its minimalist nature, Email::Store is incredibly powerful.
Its power comes from its extensibility, through plugin modules and
hooks which allow you to add new database tables and concepts to the
system, and so access the mail store from a "different direction". In
a sense, Email::Store is a blank canvas, onto which you can pick and
choose (or even write!) the plugins which you want for your
application.

For instance, the core Email::Store::Entity plugin module addresses
the idea of "people" in the email universe, allowing you to search for
mails to or from particular people; (despite their changing names or
email addresses) Email::Store::Thread interfaces Email::Store to
Mail::Thread allowing you to navigate mails by their position in a
mail thread; the planned non-core Email::Store::Plucene module plugs
into the indexing process and stores information about emails in a
Plucene search index for quick retrieval later, and so on.