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+# Copyright (C) 2007-2008 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
+# USA.
+
+"""The message storage service."""
+
+from zope.interface import Interface, Attribute
+
+
+
+class IMessageStore(Interface):
+    """The interface of the global message storage service.
+
+    All messages that are stored in the system live in the message storage
+    service.  A message stored in this service must have a Message-ID header.
+    The store writes an X-Message-ID-Hash header which contains the Base32
+    encoded SHA1 hash of the message's Message-ID header.  Any existing
+    X-Message-ID-Hash header is overwritten.
+
+    Either the Message-ID or the X-Message-ID-Hash header can be used to
+    uniquely identify this message in the storage service.  While it is
+    possible to see duplicate Message-IDs, this is never correct and the
+    service is allowed to drop any subsequent colliding messages, or overwrite
+    earlier messages with later ones.
+
+    The combination of the List-Archive header and either the Message-ID or
+    X-Message-ID-Hash header can be used to retrieve the message from the
+    internet facing interface for the message store.  This can be considered a
+    globally unique URI to the message.
+
+    For example, a message with the following headers:
+
+    Message-ID: <87myycy5eh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
+    Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:49:58 +0900
+    List-Archive: http://archive.example.com/
+    X-Message-ID-Hash: RXTJ357KFOTJP3NFJA6KMO65X7VQOHJI
+
+    the globally unique URI would be:
+
+    http://archive.example.com/RXTJ357KFOTJP3NFJA6KMO65X7VQOHJI
+    """
+
+    def add(message):
+        """Add the message to the store.
+
+        :param message: An email.message.Message instance containing at least
+            a unique Message-ID header.  The message will be given an
+            X-Message-ID-Hash header, overriding any existing such header.
+        :returns: The calculated X-Message-ID-Hash header.
+        :raises ValueError: if the message is missing a Message-ID header.
+            The storage service is also allowed to raise this exception if it
+            find, but disallows collisions.
+        """
+
+    def get_message_by_id(message_id):
+        """Return the message with a matching Message-ID.
+
+        :param message_id: The Message-ID header contents to search for.
+        :returns: The message, or None if no matching message was found.
+        """
+
+    def get_message_by_hash(message_id_hash):
+        """Return the message with the matching X-Message-ID-Hash.
+        
+        :param message_id_hash: The X-Message-ID-Hash header contents to
+            search for.
+        :returns: The message, or None if no matching message was found.
+        """
+
+    def delete_message(message_id):
+        """Remove the given message from the store.
+
+        :param message: The Message-ID of the mesage to delete from the store.
+        :raises LookupError: if there is no such message.
+        """
+
+    messages = Attribute(
+        """An iterator over all messages in this message store.""")
+
+
+
+class IMessage(Interface):
+    """The representation of an email message."""
+
+    message_id = Attribute("""The message's Message-ID header.""")
+
+    message_id_hash = Attribute("""The unique SHA1 hash of the message.""")
+
+    path = Attribute("""The filesystem path to the message object.""")