Re: tny_camel_account_add_option(): Possible options

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 23:19 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 18:44 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > How can I discover what options are possible with
> > tny_camel_account_add_option()? The documentation only mentions
> > * use_ssl=never
> > * use_ssl=always
> > * use_ssl=when-possible (means use TLS, which seems odd)
> 
> I agree, when-possible is a strange value for what it does. This is
> Camel though (I didn't want to go ahead and change all that into saner
> values, maybe we should .. though).
> 
> > Are these options specific to camel only? Are they documented anywhere
> > in camel? Or are they part of some standard?
> 
> Yes, they are specific for Camel.
> 
> > For instance, how would I specify authentication methods such as
> > password and CramMD5?
> 
> That's documented i Camel's documentation. Although I'd be okay with
> getting it documented in libtinymail-camel's gtk-doc API ref. manual.

Could you tell me where it's documented?

> > Are there plans to make generic TnyAccount API for these rather than
> > leaving this to the specific TnyCamelAccount API?
> 
> No, not really. Because this is indeed truly specific for Camel and I
> don't yet want to burden the implementer of a future such library to
> have to deal with this crazyness

I guess that all mail clients would need to specify secure connections
and authentication, however. I don't meant that we should use the option
strings for this.

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