On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 10:48 +0000, John Carr wrote:
>
> On 11/29/07, Dr J A Gow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> (Incidentally, regarding pushmail - if you or anyone else has
> an
> internet-facing IP address you may be interested in some other
> work I am
> doing at the moment - it's embryonic at the moment but I am
> looking to
> use some of the core sync-engine code to develop a
> linux-hosted push
> email server. I have been watching Airsync traffic for a while
> now and I
> think it can be done...watch this space!)
>
> John.
>
> Excellent news :-)
>
> I'd be interested in talking about this on IRC as it's something i'd
> looked at myself. One idea I had been throwing around was finishing up
> the server mode of conduit. The main reason for Conduits involvement
> was an adaptor layer so that its all pluggable. For example, I could
> connect synce contact sync to conduits existing gmail contacts plugin.
> Equally, if i move to an open phone platform I can just switch from
> ActiveSync to SyncML or whatever the new sync protocol is..
> Unfortunately I've not had time as we've been concentrating on desktop
> integration.. but if your looking in this area then i'd like to see if
> there is some area of cross over / co-operation..
>
I am looking at this at the moment but there is a number of very
significant fixups and improvements I need to make to sync-engine itself
first. The Airsync stuff for pushmail is straightforward but is
sufficiently different to the PIM syncing to require substantial changes
to the way we handle the individual items. I had thought about giving
the server a pluggable architecture with pluggable backends (e.g. imap,
pop, local file database etc). One of those backends could be a plugin
for Conduit....
I'll probably do an IMAP backend first as this is the one I need :)
The server would be fundamentally distinct from sync-engine (it would
have to be at least initially to make debugging easier) and is designed
to run stand-alone so that the mobile device can connect to it in the
same manner as it would an Exchange server.
Let's talk about this later next week on IRC. I need to finish the
updates (DTPT, partnership and config stuff) to sync-engine first and I
should be able to get back to the push server then.
John.
>
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