v3 mailrepository maildir

[Alexander Zhukov]

hi all!

i'm an author of javamaildir (http://javamaildir.sourceforge.net/) project. few days ago noel bergman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) contacted me and asked if i wanted to contribute to james.
as i understood from his words (and from googling this page: http://www.mail-archive.com/avalon-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg18473.html)
maildir is going to be a major mailrepository for the james v3.

the last time i saw james' code was half a year ago, by that time james had no (well unusable) imap support, weak ldap user store and no maildir/maildir++ support. these are basically the areas of my interest.
as i see on james' page imap support is removed(was alpha/experimental) and ldap is still experimetal.
i'd like to bring imap back, but that would require a major redesign of mailrepository interface. it leads me to conclusion that i should focus my work on james v3.

noel said that no v3 code currently exists only ideas.

a question: are there any web-pages/papers that i could look through to get a quick understanding of has been done about v3 and where should i start, or possibly anyone could describe the situation?

in james-dev mailing list archive i've found this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/james-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg04419.html
(James v3 investigatory questions)
>Possible question areas:
> - JAAS
> - java.nio
> - any JavaMail issues?
> - Is JNDI suitable as a general interface to a
> user and data (mail) store? If not, what are
> recommendations?

>Are we willing to keep James v2.x on JDK 1.3, and allow James v3 to use JDK
>1.4+, so that we can use java.nio and other enhanced network features?

i have already wrote to noel that javamail while being not very efficient (too much parsing too early) is pretty usable for mailrepository in its current state, but we can try to convince bill shannon (person responsbile for javamail at sun - [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to improve it. from previous talk with him i can say he is willing to cooperate.

imho java.nio jdk1.4 and jndi is a must for v3


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