[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1861?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16594141#comment-16594141
]
Lewis John McGibbney commented on NUTCH-1861:
---------------------------------------------
Hi [~yossi] thanks for response
bq. Isn't SMTP only for sending (and relaying) messages? How can it be used for
crawling?
When I opened this ticket my understanding of SMTP was much less (it is still
not great however it is slightly better). Your description sounds correct.
bq. I assume crawling in this instance will be in the context of a specific
user (with password), but this user may have access to multiple
mailboxes/folders (at least with IMAP, I don't think POP3 supports such
features). Do you intend to support multiple users/passwords?
Yes. These URI's would be injected as normal or read from configuration.
bq. Why did you choose Commons Net over JavaMail?
I was not sure which implementation was more suited to what we were looking to
achieve. If JavaMail is the way to go, then I will code it up using that
underlying library instead.
> Implement POP3 Protocol
> -----------------------
>
> Key: NUTCH-1861
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1861
> Project: Nutch
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: protocol
> Reporter: Lewis John McGibbney
> Assignee: Lewis John McGibbney
> Priority: Major
>
> Implementing the Post Office Protocol within Nutch would open up a new use
> case which is crawling and indexing of some mail servers.
> This is particularly useful for investigation purposes or for porting/mapping
> mail from one server to another.
> We *may* be able to kil two bird with the one stone by implementing both IMAP
> and POP3 protocols under the one plugin.
> http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-net/
--
This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA
(v7.6.3#76005)
