[Kde-pim] Sending emails via KMail or MailTransport library?

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 30 September 2007 13:52, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Sunday 30 September 2007, Volker Krause wrote:
> > On Saturday 29 September 2007 20:59:49 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > Even if we recommend that KDE applications rather use the APIs
> > > directly (the service implementation obviously would do this as
> > > well), sending mail is often interesting for third party
> > > applications as well (e.g. OpenOffice.org).
> >
> > Mailtransport already has a D-Bus interface which is exported by
> > every application using it.
>
> Ah, great!
> I think this is totally sufficient, maybe even better than an
> additional service.
>
> > Having it always available could be easily done by a
> > one-line kded module. Adding a D-Bus method for sending mails would
> > also be possible, but because the use of jobs a bit more complex if
> > you also want to return the result.
>
> Some use cases are "Open and pre-fill a composer window", so this
> would have to be handled by a real MUA anyway.

Not necessarily. I'm still dreaming of making the composer (and the 
reader) available as a standalone application (e.g. a simple wrapper 
for a composer KPart), so that one can compose a message (or read a 
saved message) without having to start a fullfledged MUA.


Regards,
Ingo
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