[Gpephone-devel] About POP3 support in tinymail

[Nils Faerber]

Hi!
It would probably a good idea to send your modifications for review to
the Tinymail maintainer, Philip van Hoof.

I am pretty sure he will not agree with the changes ;) Not for the
reason they would not make sense or are bad, but simply Philip has a
very distinct way of working and it is higly unprobable we matched that
at first try ;) So do not mind his constructive critics that will come.

We definitely want to use his mainstream version in the future so it is
vitally important to check with him what we can do to improve and get
into mainline Tinymail development again.

Thanks!

Cheers
  nils

? ? schrieb:
> Hi,
>     Email application is based on the patched tinymail framework. One of 
> the modifications made in tinymail patch is adding support for POP3 
> protocol in libtinymail-camel layer, but the support is not complete, in 
> fact, it is very limited.  
> 
>     For example, in interfaces for TnyFolder, only tny_folder_get_headers 
> interface  is reloaded specific to pop3 protocol, and other relevant 
> interfaces except tny_folder_get_msg are not tested under pop3, maybe some 
> of them cannot work under pop3 protocol and future work on them is needed.
> 
>   As to pop3 implementation of tny_folder_get_headers, all the messages in 
> remote server folder are downloaded first, and then message headers are 
> constructed according to the messages.  Obviously, this solution is ugly. 
> So I wonder, is there anybody else also do such pop3 support for tinymail? 
> If you have more complete and graceful solution for pop3, or you are 
> interested in this work, please tell me, we can have a discussion on it.
> 
> Best regards
> Enya
> 

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