On Sat Jul 11 12:34:26 2009, Bernhard zwischenbrugger wrote:
My idea is to make a webchat that handles "normal" messages like emails in a mail program - similar to IMAP.
I've long argued that the best way of handling an archive of messages is via IMAP, even if those messages were (or are) XMPP messages. I'd gladly work on a transformation from XMPP to MIME to support this, with a view to allowing XMPP servers to "dump" messages into IMAP.
The biggest question is really the decision on whether to have the IMAP message be a conversation or a single message. I'd argue that we should make formats for both, but do single messages by default.
Once that's all done, of course, then retrieving the last 20 normal messages is trivial (with base IMAP) - all that side of the work has been done for us, and things like the Lemonade profile, and various common extensions, give us a lot more functionality than we are likely to bother specifying in XEP-0136.
Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:[email protected] - xmpp:[email protected] - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade
