Bruce,
Can you share the resources you have found about IMAP/JavaMail etc. in
your research. Let me know where I can help you with that. I'm not a mail
expert but I will help where possible.
Thanks.
> On 12/5/05, Rajith Attapattu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Ok here is what I have right now for POP3.
>>
>> I have gone through the RFC 1939 in detail and here is the summary. I
>> have also gone through the JavaMail API spec. Started a bit if coding.
>>
>> I can come with a basic POP3 implementation that connects, authenticates
>> and list/retrieve/delete messages by Tuesday the earliest.
>>
>> Next on my list is message processing according to RFC 822.
>>
>> After that I will look into authentication.
>>
>> Is this timeline OK????
>>
>> POP3 protocol stack
>> ====================> I will start ASAP on the connection management and
>> the mandatory POP3
>> commands.
>> USER name valid in the AUTHORIZATION state
>> PASS string
>> QUIT
>>
>> STAT valid in the TRANSACTION state
>> LIST [msg]
>> RETR msg
>> DELE msg
>> NOOP
>> RSET
>> QUIT
>>
>>
>> Authentication
>> ==============> For now I will only work on USER/PASS, but some servers
>> do not support
>> plain text authentication.
>>
>> However I need to find out more details about the AUTH(RFC 1734) command
>> which use encryption. Same thing is used for IMAP. (didn't have time to
>> investigate).
>>
>> Message Format (RFC 822)
>> ======================> A whole new beast to be conquered. Again I
>> didn't have time to go
>> through in detail. Will give an update by Monday evening if possible.
>>
>> Guys, is this too much time??? What is the deadline??? do we need this
>> before ApacheCon ??
>
> There's no need to get it implemented by 1.0 because I highly doubt
> that we could test it extensively enough.
>
> As for your research, it looks good. Let' concentrate on building a
> good base of the implementations for the Message and the Store for
> both POP3 and IMAP before we get into authentication, encryption and
> the like. If we build a well designed base then extending it to handle
> addition things will be much easier.
>
> FYI: In addition to achieving a good grasp of how this architecture
> will be composed, I've been looking more at the Message (and its
> relation to the Activation Framework) and the IMAP related parts.
>
> Bruce
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> );'
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> Apache Geronimo
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>
-- bilal
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