[fetchmail-devel] Add MAPI support to fetchmail

[Yangyan L. <yan...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I am a student attended to join in GSoC 2008 (
http://code.google.com/soc/2008), and I am going join one project of
OpenChange (http://www.openchange.org) to add MAPI support to Fetchmail,
perhaps as a plugin.

Now, I am puzzled how to add MAPI support to Fetchmail. I've found that in
Fetchmail there is a plugin option which allows users to use an external
program to establish the TCP connection. If I add MAPI support in this way,
I have to write an adapter to translate between MAPI and one of the
protocols Fetchmail supports. These is no need to change Fetchmail code in
this approach. However, seems the plugin option is incompatible with -f
option and mda option in Fetchmail.

Are there any other approaches to add MAPI support to Fetchmail?

Thanks!
Yangyan