Re: [fetchmail-devel] Add MAPI support to fetchmail

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Yangyan Li schrieb:
> 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?

Hi Yangyan,

In order to answer that question, I'd need to know which protocols, or 
directions, would MAPI support address? I'm pretty much agnostic of the 
Windows internals... So is MAPI good for:

- fetchmail pulling mail from some server, as alternative to IMAP, POP3 and 
thereabouts?

- fetchmail pushing mail locally to some other server, as alternative to 
SMTP/LMTP or MDA?

- both?

I think we should then fork a branch in the repository, as a side branch 
off of BRANCH_6-3, so that the support can later be merged into a 
to-be-created 6-4 branch or onto the trunk.

Best regards

-- 
Matthias Andree

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