On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 00:35 +0000, Jorge Bastos wrote: > Aaron, Paul and others, > > I had some ideas that i think that would increase the use of dbmail > when we talk about easy managment.
New ideas are always welcome :-) > The first one is: > Create "drivers" to manage dbmail, in this first step the goal could > be, create users, delete users, update users passwd's. [snip] > A connector/"driver" could exist in .NET, a PHP Class, for the two > most used languages. I would like to see a stable API exported as some kind of 'libdbmail'. Before the 2.2 release, Paul moved libdbmail.so out of /usr/lib and into /usr/lib/dbmail to indicate that it isn't a stable API for public consumption yet. It's not. I hope that one day it will be stable. Once we have a stable API, .NET and PHP and Perl and Python and whatever other useful bindings would be great to have. I personally couldn't maintain them, however, because my plate is full right now, but I would be supportive of the work as much as possible. > Another thing is an outlookaddin, for ms outlook 2003 to manage sieve. > Don't know what you all think about this two ideas, but i'm sure > they'll be very helpfull. That'd be very cool. It has nothing to do with DBMail, per se - separate code base. It's a ManageSieve client. Check out the ManageSieve draft: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-martin-managesieve-07.txt It would be interesting if the plugin had a Sieve parser, or perhaps even a PHP array de-serializer and parser to read Avelsieve scripts. Note that libSieve is not useful for this purpose because it doesn't have hooks in the parser to return an abstract syntax tree of the script, which you would need in order to generate user interface state from an existing script. > Anybody wants to do this as a PHP Class, or help on the outlookaddin? If you want to discuss this further, it should probably go off-list, because it isn't within the scope of the DBMail project, even though it would be nice to have such a tool out there. It would be great if you could form a development group for an Outlook plugin. I highly recommend that folks on this list who likes the idea should get together and start hacking on it! > Aaron/Paul, > After you both pronunce about what you think about this, what do you > think in adding a menu on the dbmail website for this misc/third party > applications/addon's? Sure, that's fine with me. Aaron
