On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:31:30PM -0400, Ricardo SIGNES said: > I can have a brief look, but I have never, ever used Email::Store. I only > updated a few CLEARLY busted things to bring it under the care of PEP. I > think > there are some others here who have more experience with it.
Email::Store is, if not abandonware at the moment, definitely sleeping. I took over maintenance when the OA lost interest then the project I was using it for went away and various bits of life whacked me over the head. I have, sitting aorund somewhere, a more sane design that's about 80% done. Part of the reason that it's not finished is that I actually see it as two seperate but intertwined projects - 1) A project that allows a single point of access to a mail store including adding messages, iterating through all the messages, retrieving a message with given message-id, deleting messages. Basically a combination of Email::Folder, ::Delete and ::LocalDelivery with a nice wrapper round them. This should have the usual backends - mbox, MH, maildir and also maybe DB. I'd be willing to give up the Email::Store namespace for this. 2) A project like a combination of the current Email::Store and Beagle/Dashboard in which a mail comes in an aquires various 'clues' which plugins provide. Unfortunately my current need for such stuff has passed me by and I'm low on tuits. Eitherway, Email::Store, as is, is currently effectively unmaintained. I don't think it would take *that* much work to clean up the bitrot and there's some stuff to do to make it work on Postgres. It might even be nice to port it to DBIx::Class or Data::ObjectDriver or whatever. But as it stands I'm not going to do it. Simon
