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Lewis John McGibbney commented on NUTCH-1861: --------------------------------------------- Hi Folks, using commons-net I was thinking of bulking support for SMTP(S), POP3(S) and IMAP(S) into the same _*protocol-email*_ plugin. Is this a better architecture choice than separating each implementation out into an individual protocol plugin? > Implement POP3 Protocol > ----------------------- > > Key: NUTCH-1861 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1861 > Project: Nutch > Issue Type: Task > Components: protocol > Reporter: Lewis John McGibbney > Assignee: Lewis John McGibbney > Priority: Major > > Implementing the Post Office Protocol within Nutch would open up a new use > case which is crawling and indexing of some mail servers. > This is particularly useful for investigation purposes or for porting/mapping > mail from one server to another. > We *may* be able to kil two bird with the one stone by implementing both IMAP > and POP3 protocols under the one plugin. > http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-net/ -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)