Re: Imap Backend Propsal

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 at 13:57:43, Cipriano Groenendal wrote: > > >Also, I don't see the point to call your methods imapSomething. Just get > rid of the imap > > >prefix and we might be able to later have a Mail_POP3 class with the same > API. > > --This class mostly just wraps IMAP functions, thus I thought it helpful > to name the > > functions after what they were wrapping. But again, point taken. > Abstraction is > > always good! > I've written my own webmail client with similar functions in the backend as > this class proposes, and as such, I'm highly interrested in it. > As you may or may not know, PHP's imap module can connect to IMAP, POP and > NNTP via the same functions. Even the data returned will be nearly > identical. There will be no need at all for a seperate Mail_POP3 class, > since the Mail_IMAP package will access it just as easily as it would with > IMAP. That said, I agree with Bertrand about the class name and function > names. I'd suggest calling it Mail_Message, since it deals with parsing and > reading of a message. Since you're parsing mainly the headers and MIME-structure of a message, wouldn't it be a good idea to integrate this into Mail_Mime? No more class would be needed, and since Mail_Mime currently handeles generation of a MIME- message it might then also support parsing as well as "parse, modify and sent our again" or something. Just a thought ... Stefan