Re: [ jEdit-devel ] New plugin (in developmnet): JMail

[Slava P. <sp...@gj...>]

What advantages does this plugin gain from being a plugin???
jEdit is not trying to be emacs :-)

Slava

Matija Kejzar wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> JMail will (hopefully) someday be a full-featured email client for jEdit. It
> will support POP3, IMAP and SMTP protocols for receiving and sending email
> messages. For the moment, however, only part of POP3 protocol is supported.
> This means that JMail is currently of little use, as it can only check your
> mail box for new messages. It can, however, do that repeatedly if so
> desired, therefore eliminating the need for running a separate email client
> to check for mail.
> 
> A note about the net.sourceforge.mkejzar.pop3 package:
> This package contains an implementation of POP3 client-server protocol (IMC
> POP3 RFC 1939) and is completely independent of any other jEdit class.
> Therefore you can use it if you're writing an email client or something
> similar. It is distributed under the terms of GNU General Public License.
> 
> Since the current usefulness of JMail is somewhat limited and since Mike's
> on vacation, the plugin will not be available at the plugin central anytime
> soon. You can get it from jEdit's Source Forge CVS (module plugins/JMail,
> tag 'jmail-0-0-2') or from my plugin page at
> http://www.kiss.uni-lj.si/~k4fr0466
> 
> Provide some feedback if you can.
> 
> Matt
> 
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