In playing with the whole pop3 external authentication, wouldn't it be cool
if XMail had (in a future version) an open "api"?
The idea is, take the implementation details out of certain areas of XMail
and have an interface where a hacker could just
plug in the details... this would be very nice for user management. For
example, I wrote a java app that queries our Oracle
database (where our employee information is stored... like passwords) so we
don't have all these different places where user
information is stored. It would be cool if you could write your own
implementation of how and where user information
is stored.
There could be an api for java (heh heh), perl, c++ (duh) and tcl and maybe
even a com version. By default xmail would ship with
the standard implementation so that non-hackers could easily setup xmail and
use the current method for user management.
I dunno, it would certainly make XMail "open" to complete systems
integration.
okay... shoot this one down
./dave
