[Kde-pim] gsoc project: akonadi for pop3 and smtp

[Constantin Berzan]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:
> Exactly. I'd even go as far as calling the mail dispatcher agent a
> prerequisite for a standalone composer. Without the dispatcher the
> standalone composer would still need a running KMail/KNode for sending
> (since sending does not belong into the composer IMO).
>
> A variation of the project I can think of could cover the following
> items:
> - email compositing library with the message builder (which can be used
> by any application that wants to send mail without having the need for
> the composer GUI, e.g. by KOrganizer for sending invitations)
> - mail dispatcher agent for doing the actual sending
> - Plasma thingy for managing the global outbox. IMO, this is a must-have
> for interacting with the mail dispatcher agent.
> - (optional) D-Bus service for sending mail (via the mail dispatcher
> agent) for applications that do the email compositing on their own
>
> Extracting the composer GUI from KMail could be done in a later step
> once the above prerequisites have been completed.

So I am kind of in a quandary here; this could go two ways:
1) Focus on separating the message builder and composer gui.  The
dispatcher agent will probably not be finished due to time
constraints, so kmail/knode/mailody will still take care of sending on
their own.
2) Focus on the mail dispatcher agent.  A message composing library
will be written. KMail might not be ported due to time constraints, so
it will still assemble messages on its own.  GUIs will not be shared.

I am planning to continue working on this after the summer is over,
but school is school, and time is just very hard to come by.  So
(Thomas, Ingo, and anyone else interested), which one of the above do
you think is more valuable and would better be done sooner?

Thanks for all the extremely useful insights!
Constantin


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