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

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Volker Krause wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 March 2009 00:51:45 Constantin Berzan wrote:
> > KMail nowadays uses ioslaves for pop3 and smtp.  I am considering
> > developing akonadi resources for pop3 and smtp, and porting kmail
> > to use them, as a GSoC project.  The akonadi resources will be
> > based on the code in kio_pop3 and kio_smtp.
> >
> > First off, please holler if someone is already working on this.  I
> > know someone is doing the "Akonadi Resource for KMail local
> > folders" project and I am not sure whether they intersect.
> >
> > Some questions:
> > * What do you think about the scope of such a project?  Is it too
> > little / too much to do in one summer?
>
> It is certainly doable I think, assuming you have some C++/Qt
> experience already.
>
> > * Are there any obstacles that I might be overlooking?  From what
> > I've read about akonadi, it should be able to handle pop3, but I
> > have my doubts about smtp.  A write-only resource?
>
> Right, that's why we came up with a different approach for sending.
> Ingo started a mail dispatcher agent in playground/pim which
> basically monitors the outbox and processes any mail put in there,
> using the mailtransport library. The agent is only a skeleton so far,
> completing it would be a good GSoC project IMHO.

I agree. I'd love to work on this myself, but given my track record of 
not getting any coding done outside of KDE meetings it is unlikely that 
I would finish it before the end of this decade. :-/

We talked about the mail dispatcher agent during this year's Osnabrück 
meeting (in January), but I'm not sure anybody took notes. In two weeks 
there will be another KDE PIM meeting. During this meeting I will try 
to draft a design document for the agent.


Regards,
Ingo
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