[Kde-pim] Akonadi outbox & dispatcher agent [tentative design]

[Volker Krause]

On Sunday 03 May 2009 11:51:41 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Sunday 03 May 2009, Volker Krause wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 May 2009 00:35:37 Constantin Berzan wrote:
> > > Design:
> > > * The outbox and send-mail folders will be maildirs on the local
> > > machine (e.g. in ~/.local/share/mail/{outbox,sent-mail}).  Does it
> > > make sense to have two separate resources (outbox and sent-mail),
> > > or a single resource managing both these directories?
> >
> > The outbox does not necessarily need to have a "physical"
> > representation in form of a maildir. As it contains only temporary
> > data anyway, it could just as well only exist in Akonadi (that is
> > currently not yet possible, as Akonadi enforces a resource ownership
> > for every collection, but that will eventually change).
>
> That would require all apps that want to send mail to depend in some way
> on Akonadi. OTOH, if there is a physical outbox then such an app only
> needs to depend on some message composer library and then it could
> simply drop the composed message into the physical outbox. I'm not sure
> whether this workflow is really necessary. Alternatively, to dropping
> the message into the outbox it could probably also run a helper app
> which puts a file into Akonadi's outbox. *shrug*

I'm wondering if the additional overhead and complexity of a monitored maildir 
outbox is worth the effort though. After all, when relying on the mail 
dispatcher agent there is a runtime dependency on Akonadi already anyway.

Having a command line tool for sending mails makes probably sense, in fact we 
have one already (ksendmail), which currently relies on KMail.

regards
Volker
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