Noel J. Bergman wrote:
Actually, I think so, but perhaps not the same way that you anticipate.  I'd
like to see us ensure that the base "Mailet" package is protocol neutral.
Protocol neutral? What does that mean? I assume we keep it focused on spool processing (messaging in general) and MimeMessages. Are you suggesting we decouple from email addresses? What else would you change?

The current package has started incrementally tying itself to SMTP and MIME.
I'd like us to take a similar approach to the servlet and servlet.http
packages.
servlet and servlet.http? If this was done in the name of protocol neutrality, it has to rank up there as one of the worst design decision in the history of Java APIs. It's one of the most widely adopted APIs yet NOBODY has used with another protocol aside from http...

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