Re: [HC Evolution] can providers be both STORE and TRANSPORT?

[Chris Toshok <toshok hungry com>]

Dan Winship wrote:

> We'd talked about changing Camel so a provider could provide both (and
> used NNTP as the example of when you'd want that), but didn't actually
> do it.
>
> If you have separate nntpstore and nntptransport providers, they'd
> need separate configuration information, which would suck. So we
> probably want to fix CamelProvider. You can move PROVIDER_STORE /
> PROVIDER_TRANSPORT into the flags field. Then you need to do something
> clever with object_type.

okay.  not sure about the clever part but the flag change should be easy.

> We'll also need to add something to the structure so the Mail Sources
> Wizard knows not to list NNTP as a possible mail source. (Some field,
> "domain" maybe that would tell what sort of messaging the provider
> does. "mail", "news", "sms", "irc", etc.)

make sense.

> Adding a news provider also highlights the problem of "what exactly is
> in the shortcut view and folder tree view, and how do new things get
> there". You obviously don't want to list every newsgroup, so there
> needs to be some way to tell the shell which ones to display.

True.  IMAP also has the potential for this problem, since there are
subscriptions there too.

Chris