On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Michal A. Valasek wrote: > Hello, > > I have feature request: let local mailer in Xmail support Windows Mail > Pickup Service format, in addition to its own. > > Why? It seems that built-in SMTP server in Windows is going to be > deprecated. In Windows Server 2008 it must be separately installed, > configured etc. Microsoft was considering dropping it altogether, but > they decided to keep it - yet. So no future seems to be in it. > > However, putting text file in defined format to mail folder is the way > how lots of application works. .NET has built-in feature and > configuration for it. Location of such folder can be configured (ie. to > point to Xmails folder), but format of message not. Of course we can use > SMTP, but it has lots of negative implications and does not scale well. > > The Mail Pickup Service format is simple. It's standard RFC2822, but it > has two headers added on top: x-sender (which is envelope sender) and > x-receiver (which is envelope recipient and may be present more than > once). > > I think that presence of this feature will not complicate Xmail and will > help lots of developers and server admins, who may continue to use > current applications without rewriting them. > > If you'll be in a good mood, consider adding separate configurable > 'watch' folder to scan for local messages (to allow to point it to > C:\inetpub\MailRoot\pickup, which is default location), but it's not > really necessary - the folder name can usually be changed (in good > applications).
Or, instead of adding a system dependent feature to XMail, someone can write something trivially simple that moves messages from one folder to the other (XMail's one), with proper conversion. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
