On 12/5/05, Dain Sundstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 5, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Bruce Snyder wrote: > > > As for your research, it looks good. Let' concentrate on building a > > good base of the implementations for the Message and the Store for > > both POP3 and IMAP before we get into authentication, encryption and > > the like. If we build a well designed base then extending it to handle > > addition things will be much easier. > > Bruce, I think it would be cool if Rick does the SMTP auth and > encryption stuff right away. It should be orthogonal to the work you > guys are doing on the inbound stuff. Also, I think having a really > good SMTP implementation is a hight priority as most J2EE apps only > send email.
Sorry, I wasn't very clear there. Yes, I have no problem with authentication on SMTP. WRT POP3, I see no point in tackling authentication until a plain, vanilla version of the POP3 stuff is in place and tested. 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/