Re: [Syllable-developer] Whisper

[Tim S. <tim...@bl...>]

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 19:08 +0000, Kristian Van Der Vliet wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:46:46 +0100, Tim Schofield <tim...@bl...> wrote:
> > I have been looking at Syllable for the last couple of weeks and I like
> > what I see so far. The main thing that keeps me heading back to Linux is
> > my email, which is all stored centrally on our imap server.
> > 
> > Is anyone working on implementing IMAP in whisper?
> > 
> > If not, I don't mind doing it myself, but I have limited spare time at
> > the moment, and I don't want to waste my time if someone else is already
> > doing it.
> 
> Not to the best of my knowlege.  I was intended to add IMAP support
> in Whisper 1.1 (probably), but I'd be more than happy for someone else
> to add IMAP as it means I wont need to set up a whole IMAP4 test server
> etc.
> 
> IMAP may require a bit of extra work to support properly, but the basic
> idea is to create an IMAPMailbox class (Rather than a Transport class)
> I don't know enough about IMAP to say if you'd need some sort of
> IMAPTransport class to handle sending email; you might be able
> to do it all via. the Mailbox E.g. if an email is written to the Outbox,
> send it and move it to the Sent folder...
> 
> Email me if you have any questions or ideas :)
> 

ok, I have a number of years experience with IMAP, so understand the
protocol pretty well, its just time that is the problem. I will put
something together, and let you have a look.

Thanks,
Tim