Re: [week 3] mail as a desktop service

["Ian Marcinkowski" <ian desrt ca>]

That's the idea!  Otherwise, I'd just write a mail app and use EDS or something.


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Ian Marcinkowski
ian desrt ca

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Schreiber <sadam gnome org>

Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:01:52 
To: Ian Marcinkowski<ian desrt ca>
Cc: <gnome-soc-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: [week 3] mail as a desktop service


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On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Ian Marcinkowski<ian desrt ca> wrote:
> That is a great idea!  A Gmail style application would simply have to be
> aware of enough information to display a similar interface.
>
> The purpose of my project is to enable any application to consume mail
> information however they would like.  I want to take the mail
> implementation details out of mail delivery so that we can get some
> awesome mail readers without having to design something the scale of
> Evolution to read our messages.
>
> There are several conceptual parts to mail with my API.
>
> Accounts are mostly login information and a list of subscribed folders.
> Folders can have searches performed on them.
> Lists are the useful list of messages.
> Messages will be anything from a full RFC822 message or a subpart of a
> message.
>
> An app would simply have to download the relevant message info and find
> a nice way to display it.

Thanks for your reply.  I just wanted to make sure your API was
flexible enough/provided enough information about the messages for a
future mail client to be able to have such a display mode if it
wanted.

Adam

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> Ian Marcinkowski
> ian desrt ca
> Gnome - Mail as a Desktop service
> http://blog.marcinkowski.ca
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Adam Schreiber <sadam gnome org>
> To: Ian Marcinkowski <ian desrt ca>
> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:40:13 -0400
> Subject: Re: [week 3] mail as a desktop service
> This question has nothing to do with your status report, but as a
> result of your work, will a Gmail style conversation view in an email
> client consuming your API be possible?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adam
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Ian Marcinkowski<ian desrt ca> wrote:
>>
>> I have successfully modularized my code. My DBus API now has little
>> trace of IMAP-ism and my cache is working fully asyncronously. It has
>> been a week of learning. Being asyncronous was hurting my brain
>> initially. I'm getting used to it.
>>
>> This past week:
>> *Fought with Git
>> *Cleaned code
>> *Separated code into module files
>> *Fetch data using UID instead of IMAP folder sequence number
>> This will be useful for when I'm not dealing with IMAP-based mail
>> *Fetch mail from the local cache if it is present, otherwise, ask the
>> server
>>
>>
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>> Ian Marcinkowski
>> ian desrt ca
>> Gnome - Mail as a Desktop service
>> http://blog.marcinkowski.ca
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