[Kde-pim] Announcing KSmtp - A KJob-based SMTP library

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday, 2010-11-22, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Sunday 21 November 2010 10:16:41 pm Gregory Schlomoff wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > As some of you may already know, we are a team of 3 developpers
> > working on a Qt-based email client. We are using some KDE libraries,
> > mostly KIMAP, KMime, and KJob, and we are very happy with them.
> > 
> > A few weeks ago, we started working on code that needed to interact
> > with an SMTP server, and we found nothing that suited our purpose in
> > the kde-pim libraries. We needed an asynchronous, job-based api - the
> > SMTP version of KIMAP, if you will - but the existing SMTP library
> > from KDE was synchronous.
> > 
> > So after discuting the topic on #akonadi, we decided to code our own
> > KSmtp library, following the design and the conventions of KIMAP.
> > 
> > The code is here: gitweb.kde.org/scratch/schlomoff/ksmtp.git
> > 
> > KSmtp is almost feature-complete for our needs, including tests, and
> > has been tested on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. In the coming months,
> > we will be maintaining it and commiting bugfixes, as well as adding
> > some features like support for OAuth-based authentication.
> > 
> > If you guys feel like it could be a valuable addition to the KDE-PIM
> > libraries, we will be glad to see it integrated in KDE. Just let us
> > know what the next steps are, if there are any changes needed, etc...
> > In all cases, any feedback is very much appreciated.
> 
> Sounds like a very nice addition to kdepimlibs.
> We can't add it until after 4.6 is branched, but let's not forget.

Did we forget?

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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