Actually, thinking about it for a few seconds further, doesn't the
JAMES project already have code for this? My foggy memory recalls
that I've used JAMES to talk to an exchange server using IMAP....
geir
On Dec 3, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Dain Sundstrom wrote:
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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