Ok here is what I have right now for POP3. I have gone through the RFC 1939 in detail and here is the summary. I have also gone through the JavaMail API spec. Started a bit if coding.
I can come with a basic POP3 implementation that connects, authenticates and list/retrieve/delete messages by Tuesday the earliest. Next on my list is message processing according to RFC 822. After that I will look into authentication. Is this timeline OK???? POP3 protocol stack ===================== I will start ASAP on the connection management and the mandatory POP3 commands. USER name valid in the AUTHORIZATION state PASS string QUIT STAT valid in the TRANSACTION state LIST [msg] RETR msg DELE msg NOOP RSET QUIT Authentication =============== For now I will only work on USER/PASS, but some servers do not support plain text authentication. However I need to find out more details about the AUTH(RFC 1734) command which use encryption. Same thing is used for IMAP. (didn't have time to investigate). Message Format (RFC 822) ======================= A whole new beast to be conquered. Again I didn't have time to go through in detail. Will give an update by Monday evening if possible. Guys, is this too much time??? What is the deadline??? do we need this before ApacheCon ?? Regards, Rajith. -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Snyder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 8:25 PM To: dev@geronimo.apache.org Subject: Re: Who wants to write POP and IMAP transports? On 12/3/05, Rajith Attapattu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess we can later move it to it's own sub-project so other Apache > users can use it as a standalone library. Just so that they don't go > through the same trouble we are experiencing. Yes, absolutely. The goal is to offer implementations of transports for IMAP, POP3, SMTP and maybe even Mbox and Maildir eventually. Bruce -- perl -e 'print unpack("u30","D0G)[EMAIL PROTECTED]&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E<D\!G;6%I;\"YC;VT*" );' The Castor Project http://www.castor.org/ Apache Geronimo http://geronimo.apache.org/