Re: Seperation of Mail-classes (was Mail_Box RFC (?))

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:32:15PM +0200, Wolfram Kriesing wrote: > i actually thought Net_* was what should implement protocols, > Mail_* i thought was meant to contain classes that have to do with > mail. But that was just my thinking, what is the common agreement here? > If it is different where should those go, or should they not exist > seperatly at all? Net_ should be used for the protocols. Mail_ should be used for the storage formats. The Net_ protocol implementations should only implement network functionality and return strings containing their results. The Mail_ implententations should be built to deal with strings (or files containing those strings) that represent the specific storage formats. That way, it would be possible to stream a protocol-based data source through a storage class (e.g. save an mbox or Maildir file from an IMAP source). -- Jon Parise (jon@php.net) :: The PHP Project (http://www.php.net/)