22 Apr
2013
22 Apr
'13
12:19 p.m.
Hello,
Some comments,
2013/4/21 Sushil Kumar <0120sushil(a)gmail.com>
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 .
That project is divided in some components, one of them being in charge of
reading emails from a server connection (IMAP or whatever, but I only
tested on IMAP). It uses Javamail under the hood.
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-application-mailarchive/tree/feature…
This is the link to that component, on a feature branch because I
refactored it a lot for the import feature. So currently it aims at
"loading" emails from mail servers, or from archives in MBOX format.
I wouldn't say I'm satisfied currently of its design or API (well any help
welcome of course ;-) ), and event if not tagged like that (yet), it's
pretty much @Unstable ... But it might help you at least as a sample, of
course if you use James it's redundant.
Currently the components does mainly 2 things: "load" emails from a
server/an archive, and parses them to create a non-javamail object
(MailItem/MailContent).
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.
For my culture, why only SMTP ?
- 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 )
I don't know how James and MailArchive would go together, I think they're
pretty much redundant as I noticed above ... I don't know James very well
though.
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
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