Hello, Some comments,
2013/4/21 Sushil Kumar <[email protected]> > Hi , my name is Sushil Kumar and i'm an undergraduate student at JIIT , > Noida (India) . I would like to work on the project Advanced Email > Integration via GSOC 2013 . I consulted about the work that need to be done > in this project on IRC channel and got a nice explanation . But there was a > dilemma between what have to be done in this project and what has already > being done here > https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-application-mailarchive . > That project is divided in some components, one of them being in charge of reading emails from a server connection (IMAP or whatever, but I only tested on IMAP). It uses Javamail under the hood. https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-application-mailarchive/tree/feature-import-mbox/xwiki-contrib-mail This is the link to that component, on a feature branch because I refactored it a lot for the import feature. So currently it aims at "loading" emails from mail servers, or from archives in MBOX format. I wouldn't say I'm satisfied currently of its design or API (well any help welcome of course ;-) ), and event if not tagged like that (yet), it's pretty much @Unstable ... But it might help you at least as a sample, of course if you use James it's redundant. Currently the components does mainly 2 things: "load" emails from a server/an archive, and parses them to create a non-javamail object (MailItem/MailContent). > > Well here are the bullet points which i have understood after two days of > talks on IRC . > > - A SMTP server is required to receive mails and then to attach them as > XWikiComments object to a document. > For my culture, why only SMTP ? > - sdumitriu suggested me to use Apache James , but he said that its a > full blown mail server and we only need receiving part hence we need to > slice that part out. > - I found it very hard to slice the SMTP part and embed it with Jetty ( > its hard without rewriting the code from scratch and taking help from > James > and MailArchive plugin ) > I don't know how James and MailArchive would go together, I think they're pretty much redundant as I noticed above ... I don't know James very well though. > > Now after all these i have certain doubts regarding what exactly needs to > be done in this project . > > - Do we have to integrate a mail server or have to write our own SMTP > receiver ? > - If we have to integrate a mail server do we have to slice out the SMTP > part only? > - Or is it something entirely different from these two points. > > > P.S. The same dilemma exists for the Jabber part too. But will figure it > out once Email Integration is well understood. > > Thanks and Regards > Sushil Kumar > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
