Re: mailbox (was Re: intro)

[Sam Roberts]

Do you think we should put a file named OBSOLETE in libmailbox to
deflect those who naively assume that because the code is there its
used? ;-) I think I got lost in there for a while, too.

Sam

Quoting xystrus <address@hidden>, who wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:58:29PM -0500, Sam Roberts wrote:
> > Quoting xystrus <address@hidden>, who wrote:
> > > Ok, now I understand your comment, as well as your mentioning you wanted
> > > to separate the functionality of the lower APIs from the POP and IMAP
> > > stuff.  FWIW, I agree with you...  I think you were on the right track
> > > with libmailbox.  It's missing a lot of stuff, and there's no hint of
> > > signal handling in it at all, but as far as mailbox access I think
> > > the API you defined is perfect.  All the other stuff should be built
> > > ON TOP of that, i.e. handling MIME is not specifically a part of
> > > mailbox access...
> > 
> > When you use IMAP, it is. You can access parts of the MIME structure
> > without having to download the entire message and then parse it yourself.
> 
> Yeah, at one point Alain said:
> 
> > OK, I'm in my "Retrospection mood", ... so .. 
> > 
> > The design is actually quite simple:
> > - a number of low level API to handle different mailboxes.
> >   POP3 IMAP4 MBOX(unix) MH MAILDIR etc ..
> >     Rationale: since they are so different, better not try to mold
> >       to a restrictive API, but rather let it be specific to the format.
> 
> This is where I started to get the picture... until then I had been
> looking at the code in libmailbox, which reinforced the idea in my
> mind that the library you guys were working on was strictly for
> accessing mail folders of various formats.  POP3 and IMAP are not
> mail folder formats... ;-)  At that point, it became clear to me that 
> you've switched from a folder format library to a general-purpose
> mail handling library.
> 
> > But the code that parses mime and rfc822 structures should (and partly is)
> > be broken out so it so it can be used outside of the non-IMAP mailbox
> > implementations.
> 
> Yeah, definitely.
> 
> Xy
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