Re: [Aperture-devel] MboxCrawler work-in-progress

[Leo S. <leo...@df...>]

It was Antoni Mylka who said at the right time 25.02.2008 16:54 the 
following words:
> I've been working with the MboxCrawler. There are two issues with it.
>
> 1. The mbox files from the ubuntu mailing list archives - brought up
> by Jose don't work with the crawler because they use the ' at ' string
> instead of the proper @ sign - for spam avoidance. This breaks because
> the DataObjectFactory uses the getFrom() method which tries to convert
> that string into a javax.mail.Address instance - this fails obviously.
> W'd need to rewrite the DataObjectFactory to work with
>
> String [] getHeader(String id)
>
> .. and perform the conversion ourselves. This shouldn't be too difficult.
>
> 2. I don't quite understand the mapping between the Message structure
> and the list of data objects. I noticed it when the validator started
> complaining. It turns out that each part in a multipart email is
> translated into a separate data object. These data objects don't have
> any types (only the first, the message itself, and the attachments
> have proper types). What to do with them? The validator won't stand
> them and there is no proper class for a message part in NMO (yet at
> least). I'd go for adding a MessagePart or MimePart class in NMO (a
> subclass of InformationElement). What do you think?
>   

I wonder if they are dataobjects .... but I am ok when you create them 
as InformatioElements,
go ahead.

MessagePart or MimePart are both fine,

MimePart sounds more like the RFC..

lg
Leo
> All kinds of comments welcome.
>   


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