Thanks. Had intended to CC that too but I missed. -Andy
On 11/5/03 11:33 AM, "Bill Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moved to jboss-dev list. > > Andrew Oliver wrote: > >> The present status is that the SMTP is mostly done and can post messages to >> JMS (that�s just because I wrote that particular mail listener first). My >> vision is that in the short run we'll have a simple MDBean which looks at >> the message and either writes it to a MailBox (which I envision being an >> entity bean and later use either Hibernate or Bela's cache thingy). Why? I >> want 200 ms IMAP access (for instance). Someone else has already >> contributed a TLS (SSL) implementation. >> >> Eric has written a POP implementation that is awaiting a mailbox >> abstraction. (Back to above) >> >> A JBoss client has asked to fund some of that work with their support hours >> and Eric will be working on the mailbox abstraction, etc shortly. >> >> Once that is complete we have to think through authentication policies. I >> favor a rather lame brained pessimistic policy at first which will limit our >> usefulness in some areas but I don't want to ever stamp something release >> until we're real secure. >> >> Julien has also contributed something or other, however I didn't really >> understand that whole thing to be honest (why did we need that over >> JavaMail?)... >> >> The TLS guy also submitted a non-javamail Mail header implementation. Why? >> Because of all stupid things the "InternetHeader" class isn't serializable. >> >> I've got a prototype for the Jboss Console GUI >> (http://superlinksoftware.com/cgi-bin/erswiki.pl?JBossConsole) necessary to >> set up the Mail Services stuff. ATM I have to deal with restrictions on the >> RMI Classloader. The reason that I consider this related closely to mail >> services is that in order to provide an "enterprise class" mail server >> system which is flexible enough for e-support and mail lists and whatever >> without making the setup as anti-user-friendly as "sendmail.cf", I need to >> consider it from the start. Right now the GUI comes up and can categorize >> "uimanageable=true" MBeans and attempts to get their UI then chokes with a >> classloader issue. Anyhow, that�s no biggy, I'll get there. Once that is >> done I need to see how to hook into the deployment scanner and tell it "this >> descriptor is not to be redeployed, here's its new timestamp..."...then I >> have to figure out how to write descriptors. >> >> Bottom line: >> 1. Finish out mailbox abstraction >> 2. MDBean for sending and sorting mail >> 3. Get authentication policies set up >> 4. Round out the JBConsole >> 5. Write IMAP protocol and increase the complexity of the mailbox >> abstraction (multi-folder) >> 6. Write a calendar abstraction >> 7. Exchange protocol >> >> Eric may have some differing viewpoints (I have a funny way of working with >> people which sometimes looks chaotic, they go a direction, I go a direction >> then we meet up with the best tech winning). Hopefully he'll offer them up >> and round this out. Better yet...maybe he'll start on the wiki: >> http://superlinksoftware.com/cgi-bin/erswiki.pl?action=edit&id=MailServicesF >> orJBoss -- it puts the lotion in the bucket or it gets the hose. >> >> With two contiguous months I could get the mail server rounded out (at least >> 1-4). I'll probably need the most help for 7. I've actually done some work >> on 5 before for JAMES so no biggy. >> >> How's that? >> >> >> -Andy >> >> >> On 11/4/03 1:41 PM, "Bill Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Don't you have somebody helping you on JBMail? Can you ping him and CC >>> me on the status of it? >>> >>> Bill >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> jboss-group mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://mail.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-group >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ JBoss-Development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
