[aMail-devel] Planning for the future

[Victor A. R. (Bit-Man) <bi...@us...>]

Hi all,

I hope you're having (or you've had) a wonderful Christmas !!

I've been planning a bit more about aMail future, and as the Christmas
spirit reached me I did some work (an early draft, I must admit).
As first and foremost the new aMail will be completely different, so
I think that is fair (If most of us agree to do it) that aMail
changes its name. Just as a temporary name I choose aMess, mainly
because what we try to do is to build a messenger (to cope with
e-mail, Usenet, etc.) based on aMail.

The second, and more important, is that the plans are being detailed
in http://amail.sourceforge.net/aMess/.  Just to give you an idea of
what I tried to do is, mostly, an outer view (links "Main discussion" 
and "Phase one"), an approximation to the implementation ONLY for the
storage service (Storage section) and some supplementary work that
will help us to integrate all of this, and will be part of the Service
glue (SOAP as a language isolator PLUS a Query Language and a Returning
Data Format)

Well, as usual, all this stuff is to be put under your scrutiny and
consideration (while we continue working on aMail v2.1.2). Once we
agree with this first steps, we can use the Storage service as a
template and continue working on the other ones.

Hoping you can take some time to read and give some feedback to this
project (and to my tired cell brains).
--
Victor A. Rodriguez (http://www.bit-man.com.ar)
El bit Fantasma (Bit-Man)
"aMail: a lot of fun in a bunch of Perl scripts"

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