Re: POP3 tag?

2004-09-28 Thread Felipe Leme
Helios, I think it's not up to a taglib to judge how it should be used. As you mentioned, sql and xml are useful for small apps, and so would be a POP3 taglib. For instance, you could write a simple page that queries the POP3 server and shows a summary of your messages, without downloading them.

Re: POP3 tag?

2004-09-28 Thread Helios Alonso
Good point. Anyway, I suscribe that sql & mailer wouldn't be in custom tags (or only for small and not scalable apps). A web-designer wouldn't be allowed to send or receive email. If he/she does it, he/she is a web-app-designer (an architect). Real web designers only have to decide about how

Re: POP3 tag?

2004-09-28 Thread Digby
True, but you could say that about a lot of tags (sql, xml, mailer) and just passing back a simple list of messages on a POP3 account is something that you might want to let a Web designer do with a taglib if it is to be straightforward. Digby Andrew Petro wrote: I'm not at all surprised that t

Re: POP3 tag?

2004-09-28 Thread Andrew Petro
> I'm not at all surprised that there isn't one, since, IMHO, this is > not something that you should be doing from within a JSP page in the > first place. You'd be much better off putting this kind of code in a > servlet than in a JSP. IMHO, you'd be even better off putting this kind of code into

Re: POP3 tag?

2004-09-28 Thread Martin Cooper
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:03:00 +0100, Digby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I may have missed it, but I've search Google for ages - is there are > good taglib for reading POP3 accounts? > > I'm very surprised thare aren't tons of them, and that there isn't a > Jakarta Taglib one. The only one

POP3 tag?

2004-09-28 Thread Digby
Hi, I may have missed it, but I've search Google for ages - is there are good taglib for reading POP3 accounts? I'm very surprised thare aren't tons of them, and that there isn't a Jakarta Taglib one. The only one I could find was the ColdTags one, which I didn't like much (it doesn't seem very