This is part of our clean room implementation of JavaMail, so any of
the mail client just uses JavaMail won't help us.
This one looks promising http://java-source.net/open-source/mail-
clients/snowmail as it claims that "all protocols have been
reimplemented from scratch (Mime, POP, SMTP)" and it is Freeware.
Maybe we can get them to extract the protocols, or donate them to
Geronimo. Bruce do you have time to pursue this?
-dain
On Dec 3, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Rajith Attapattu wrote:
Hey Dain/Bruce,
Do we really need to write it ourselves??
The following link includes a few open source implementations of email
clients. If we can reuse them, then the effort can be used in some
other
area.
http://java-source.net/open-source/mail-clients
Regards,
Rajith.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rajith Attapattu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 1:31 PM
To: dev@geronimo.apache.org
Subject: RE: Who wants to write POP and IMAP transports?
I am willing to help. But I may not have the time to do the
research and
go through all the specs in detail (Unfortunately I can only do
stuff at
home at night and during weekends)
So if Bruce can help me with some pointers and simple documentation I
can start looking in to POP3. (sorry not very familiar with IMAP side,
so not realistic helping in that area)
So if Bruce can send me the links/docs ASAP (so I can make full use of
the weekend), I can get started right away.
I am looking for more specific info on protocol stacks and the models
(going by the guidelines provided by bruce)
Rajith.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dain Sundstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 12:42 PM
To: dev@geronimo.apache.org
Subject: Re: Who wants to write POP and IMAP transports?
Thanks Bruce!
Is anyone one else interested? This is definitely more then a one
person job.
-dain
On Dec 3, 2005, at 9:16 AM, Bruce Snyder wrote:
On 12/2/05, Dain Sundstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We still need POP and IMAP transports for our JavaMail
implementation. Do any of you have some POP or IMAP client code
sitting around, or would you like to write one?
I wish I had this code just lying around because there's a fair
amount
of effort involved in going through the RFCs for each protocol and
modeling everything.
I started to look into this last night to try to guage the amount of
effort required because I've got some experience working fairly
deeply
with IMAP in the past (see http://www.horde.org/imp/). But it's
been a
while since I've dug into the RFCs related to mail protocols.
Below is my very rough map of what's needed:
The protocols stacks:
1) Socket-based connection objects for each protocol
2) Full authentication and crypto providers
3) The full suite of IMAP commands, responses, etc. for communicating
with the server
(I'm sure there's more that I'm overlooking here)
The transports:
1) A model of each message store
2) A model of each message type
And of course tests for everything ;-).
I'll try to get started on the IMAP side of things in the next day or
two, after I complete a book chapter ;-). Once that's complete I'll
see what I can do with the POP3 side.
Bruce
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