I would like to help. I'm not familiar with the POP3 or IMAP specs but I can dig into them, once the work has been broken down to tasks. Is there anything specific I can assist with?
Bilal > Bruce/ Dain, > > Can u guys please comment on this? > (below is the break down from my reading/research) > > I would like to know if this is going in release 1.0 or 1.x ?? (somebody > else asked this question too) > > Since there is a smtp transport already written I believe there is at > least a minimum implementation of the Message class. > > If so we can sub class it and provide POP3 or IMAP Message classes. > > However how work has been done on it mile MultiPart and MimePart etc..? > > Regards, > > Rajith Attapattu. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rajith Attapattu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 12:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Who wants to write POP and IMAP transports? [status] > > Is anybody willing to tackle the Message (which conforms to > specifications RFC822 and RFC2045) then I can concentrate on POP3 and > Bruce on IMAP. > > Since this Message is a beast on it's own it maybe too much for one > person if the timeline is too short. > > At least if somebody can analyze and then summarize (reading the whole > thing will kill you :) ) it, then I can code the Message thingy. > > Any volunteers ??? > > Regards, > > Rajith Attapattu. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rajith Attapattu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 12:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Who wants to write POP and IMAP transports? [status] > > 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: [email protected] > 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/ > -- bilal ----- "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - Einstein
