[Mono-list] System.Web.Mail Enumerations

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 19:19, Lawrence Pit wrote:
> > I see that at least some of the API is modeled after Camel's API (or at
> > least the JavaMail API which Camel stole a lot of ideas from).
> 
> Erm.. I'd hardly call it an API yet ;)
> 
> > It would be really nice for the encoders/decoders, for example, to work
> > more like they do in our (Ximian's) Camel Mail API where they act as a
> > stream filter, thus allowing incremental encoding/decoding of streams.
> 
> What you describe is also how Sun has implemented their JavaMail APIs. What
> I've done so far is nothing much and I'm aware that it should move to stream
> filters.

Okay, cool ;-)

> 
> > I think the SMTP code could also benefit from mimicking Camel's SMTP
> > implementation which covers most extensions that you would probably care
> > about including SASL, STARTTLS, ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES, etc. It also
> > contains a few work-around hacks for broken server implementations that
> > you may find useful ;-)
> 
> That would be nice.
> 
> There's one thing I really miss with JavaMail though (and therefor with
> Camel too?), and that is that it doesn't act as an SMTP receiver. JavaMail
> is really only a client side abstraction of mail handling, while I'm (more)
> interested in a server side abstraction. See e.g. Apache's James.

Right, Camel doesn't have a SMTP server class, but that doesn't mean
that you couldn't add on to the API.

In fact, it would be cool if you did add a SMTP server class :-)

> 
> Also, specifically with .Net we have excellent remoting interfaces, and it
> would be really good to offer an SMTP Channel so you'd be able to
> send/receive remoting messages via SMTP and POP3.
> 
> > The following URL provides a cvsweb type of interface to the Camel cvs
> > repository.
> >
> >
> http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/rview.cgi?cvsroot=/cvs/gnome&dir=evolution/camel
> >
> > Another advantage of following Camel as closely as possible is that
> > Camel has proven itself in the Real World.
> >
> > I hope you consider looking into Camel as a reference.
> 
> I will.

:-)

Good luck,

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj@ximian.com  - www.ximian.com