MrPostman, getting mails from yahoo/hotmail

[lucas bruand]

  Hello,
 
  I am a developper for the MrPostman project. ( http://mrpostman.sf.net )
The purpose of this project is to develop a gateway from POP3 to Yahoo and Hotmail webmail.
There has been already 3 Major releases under GPL and we have reached a point where the code is very stable.
The whole team is dedicated to keep MrPostman free under the terms of the GPL, but we could also release it under another license if needed.
As a reference, we have been quoted on the JavaMail FAQ:
http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/FAQ.html

I have noticed that you are developing the pooka MUA. I think the collaboration between our two projects can be fruitful:
  - pooka could have effortlessly a very useful feature: the ability to read Yahoomail and hotmail mails, directly from the websites.
  - We would get recognition from the reuse of our library in your client.

All developpers of MrPostman will offer support about our API, if you want to integrate MrPostman into your client.

  Thanks in advance,
    Lucas Bruand

[allen petersen]

Huh.  I admit that I'd planned on adding web-mail support to Pooka one day, but I figured that it would be through a JavaMail service provider like JDAVMail, which would be a more natural fit.  Still, if you're coming up to me and asking to add support, then I guess that counts for something.  :)

I'm in the middle of switching my POP backend over to maildir.  As soon as that's done, I could probably have a go at an integration.

The API info that I'd think that I'd want/need, off the top of my head:

1)  start the service
2)  stop the service
3)  see if the service is running
4)  get/set the port of the service--wasteful as it seems, it would probably be easier and more client-like if we started up a separate server for each client, instead of risking sharing a single server
5)  access to the user options for each module
6)  does MrPostman support the POP3 UIDL command?

...are the MrPostman APIs available online anywhere?

As I said, I'm probably going to try to finish getting maildir working, but then I"ll take a look at MrPostman.

-allen