I've been working on the javamail code, mostly on the base
implementation. Today, I finally started looking at the Geronimo mail
GBean code, and added GBean adaptors for the NNTPStore and NNTPTransport
protocols.
I suspect it really has not been used much, since prior shipped releases
only had support for SMTP without authentication, but we may need to
take a look at adding some default mail authenticators. As structured
now, there is a configured MailGBean that can manage multiple mail
resources (typically, a Store/Transport pair, but it can manage more
than that). It is configured with a Collection of protocol GBeans that
describe the different protocol properties. There is one ProtocolGBean
for each type of transport or store Geronimo supports (e.g., SMTP, POP3,
NNTP, etc.).
Additionally, the constructor for MailGBean takes an instance of
javax.mail.Authenticator, which will be used by the transport/store
services for requesting site passwords. The ProtocolGBeans allow
configuring of the user names, but no password information. The
passwords need to be retrieved from the Authenticator at run time.
Currently, there are no default Authenticator implementations included
in Geronimo. When only non-authenticated SMTP was available, this was
not much of an issue. However, now that Geronimo has a javamail
implemenation that supports authenticated SMTP, NNTP, and POP3 (with
IMAP on the radar screen), this has become a little more important.
So, what sort of authenticator(s) should be written so users can
configure mail support without needing to write their own Authenticator
instances? I think we need something, but I'm not too clear how
sophisticated the something needs to be.
I'll also admit my ignorance on how some of the GBean configuration
references get resolved, since I've been working on the javamail base
code, which is not really connected to the rest of Geronimo. Given I
have an appropriate implementation of the Authenticator class to use,
how do I configure the MailGBean so it is properly initialized with
correct Authenticator instance?
Rick
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