Re: Imap Backend Propsal

> > I'd disagree there. What I could gather about Mail_Box is that it's trying > > to provide a wrapper aruond different sorts of sources for mail, be it a POP > > / IMAP server, a local file, a directory with mails, etc. Wolfram's > > Mail_Message OTOH seems to be used more for reading and generating messages, > > which is already provided by other packages (Mail, Mail_Mime, etc). I think > > that Richy's Mail_IMAP(For lack of a better name) compliments the Mail and > > Mail_MIME packages nicely. COmbine all three, and you have a full fledged > > emailing app (Mail to send, Mail_MIME to make, and Mail_IMAP to read > > messages). I havn't had the time to try out Mail_IMAP yet, but from what I > > saw, all it missed was the ability to pass an already existing IMAP > > connection to it. > > My request for being able to pass a .eml file to it wouldn't work I just > > realized 'cause you couldn't run the imap_*() functions on that. > > That's true, you'd have to use something like the mailparse extension. > So what structure do you guys suggest for that package ? > > Looks like we will end up with Mail_Imap and that's it ? > Personally, I don't have a problem with it. Well, right now I'm not at all involved with any project, I'm just jumping out of the lurking corner to yell Ooh! ooh! I want that! ;-) My personal opinion on all of this however is this: * Add Richard's Mail_IMAP package as Mail_Message, Mail_Reader, or something similar. * Take an already established connection, or establish a connection to a mailserver. * Fetching a list of a certain (IMAP/POP/NNTP) folder. * Fetching a part(Attachment, Plain/HTML, Plain/TEXT) of a message. * Fetching a certain attachment. * Handle errors/notices from Mail Server. * Handle folder listings that might exist on the remote server. Most of these are already in the Mail_IMAP package according to the quick glance I gave it. Any that don't exist yet, I'd be happy to help implement in the Mail_IMAP package. Having these all of these options allows one to create an entire mail package easily. * Mail_mail to send mail. * Mail_MIME to create mail * Mail_IMAP to read/access mail. Just my $14.95 by now. Cipri