[xwiki-devs] GSOC 2013 - Advanced Email Integration project

Hi , my name is Sushil Kumar and i'm an undergraduate student at JIIT , Noida (India) . I would like to work on the project Advanced Email Integration via GSOC 2013 . I consulted about the work that need to be done in this project on IRC channel and got a nice explanation . But there was a dilemma between what have to be done in this project and what has already being done here https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-application-mailarchive . Well here are the bullet points which i have understood after two days of talks on IRC . - A SMTP server is required to receive mails and then to attach them as XWikiComments object to a document. - sdumitriu suggested me to use Apache James , but he said that its a full blown mail server and we only need receiving part hence we need to slice that part out. - I found it very hard to slice the SMTP part and embed it with Jetty ( its hard without rewriting the code from scratch and taking help from James and MailArchive plugin ) Now after all these i have certain doubts regarding what exactly needs to be done in this project . - Do we have to integrate a mail server or have to write our own SMTP receiver ? - If we have to integrate a mail server do we have to slice out the SMTP part only? - Or is it something entirely different from these two points. P.S. The same dilemma exists for the Jabber part too. But will figure it out once Email Integration is well understood. Thanks and Regards Sushil Kumar