Re: Mail_Box RFC (?)

Bertrand Mansion wrote:

<wolfram@visionp.de> wrote :

Alan Knowles wrote:

Looks Ok, although a bit over heavy on accessors where having public vars may suffice.

since the classes are also meant for manipulation of the Mail_* stuff i think that accessors are the better choice, since the accessing of properties can cause a lot of problems ... any more opinions?

I see you are running into the same problem I do.. - not enought hours in the day to maintain more than 5 or so official pear packages.. :)

yep :-)

Hi Wolfram, I am +1 on these. I would just encourage you not to use Net_POP3 as it sometimes generates very strange results, particularly when fetching mails. I have had a lot of problems with this class in the mailing list archive I maintain (http://cocoa.mamasam.com). The use of php imap extension is very recommended for everything related to mail operations, it really works better. So, if you could use some sort of wrapper class around the imap extension functions instead of Net_POP3, that would truly be great for your package.

Net_POP3 was the only one that was easy to implement for now. But you are welcome to write the imap-wrapper, since i also would need it :-) i just implemented the easiest thing, and the Mail_Box package is meant to provide all the different interfaces, just as you want it ... -- Wolfram ... opensource @ vision:produktion ... http://opensource.visionp.de ... authentication system .... http://sf.net/projects/auth