On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Michal A. Valasek wrote:
Hello,
I have feature request: let local mailer in Xmail support Windows Mail
Pickup Service format, in addition to its own.
Why? It seems that built-in SMTP server in Windows is going to be
deprecated. In Windows Server 2008 it must be separately installed,
configured etc. Microsoft was considering dropping it altogether, but
they decided to keep it - yet. So no future seems to be in it.
However, putting text file in defined format to mail folder is the way
how lots of application works. .NET has built-in feature and
configuration for it. Location of such folder can be configured (ie. to
point to Xmails folder), but format of message not. Of course we can use
SMTP, but it has lots of negative implications and does not scale well.
The Mail Pickup Service format is simple. It's standard RFC2822, but it
has two headers added on top: x-sender (which is envelope sender) and
x-receiver (which is envelope recipient and may be present more than
once).
I think that presence of this feature will not complicate Xmail and will
help lots of developers and server admins, who may continue to use
current applications without rewriting them.
If you'll be in a good mood, consider adding separate configurable
'watch' folder to scan for local messages (to allow to point it to
C:\inetpub\MailRoot\pickup, which is default location), but it's not
really necessary - the folder name can usually be changed (in good
applications).
Or, instead of adding a system dependent feature to XMail, someone can
write something trivially simple that moves messages from one folder to
the other (XMail's one), with proper conversion.
- Davide
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