Hi Travis,
I need to reread the spec again but in general I agree with your
assessments of moving
the logic of how to convert a specific item type to MIME to the Item
class itself.
One thing I need to think about and yourself as well is storage
requirements to
prevent multiple representations of the same data from bloating the
repository especially
if our goal is for Chandler to someday be a real email client supporting
thousands of
messages.
There is also the case for things such as reply and forward that are
traditional
mail paradigms that need to be support i.e. we will still need to
maintain the original sent
message ala the rfc2882 blob currently employed.
Things are shaking out with mail now and we are starting to put stakes
in the ground as
to what "Email" means in Chandler.
Once this discussion is farther along the correct path for the mail
schema will become
more obvious.
Thanks,
Brian
Travis Vachon wrote:
Whoops! Sorry about that..
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/MIMESchemaRecommendations
Travis
Brian Kirsch wrote:
What is the URL of the wiki page you are referring to?
-Brian
Travis Vachon wrote:
Hi Brian
As I was implementing some of the changes we discussed, I had a few more
thoughts about the current mail schema, and decided that before I make
too many changes it might be useful to think about the mail schema
first. It would be a shame to do a bunch of work now that became
irrelevant later.
I've created a wiki page with some of my thoughts. The first section is
basically an edited brain-dump, and might be a little unstructured, but
hopefully gives an idea of some of the factors I was thinking of. The
second section is a proposal to change MIME handling from a first-class
Item based system to an Annotation-based system. This would obviously
require some re-working, but hopefully the page will make it fairly
clear why I think this is an option to consider.
If you're still swamped take your time. I have a couple other things I
can work on with the imapserver parcel, but I'd definitely be very
interested in your thoughts on my thoughts. Feel free to make comments
directly on the wiki page, or in a reply.
Thanks very much,
-Travis
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Brian Kirsch
Internationalization Architect/ Mail Service Engineer
Open Source Applications Foundation
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