[Gambas-devel] About gb.net.pop3

[Sebastian Kulesz]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Benoît Minisini
<gambas at ...1...> wrote:
> Le 30/08/2012 21:56, Sebastian Kulesz a écrit :
>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Benoît Minisini
>> <gambas at ...1...> wrote:
>>> Hi Sebastian,
>>>
>>> I am going to make many changes to the interface of your component.
>>>
>>> It will be faster for me to make them directly rather than explain them
>>> by mail.
>>>
>>> So once I have done my commit, please look at the result and ask me your
>>> questions so that I can justify my changes. :-)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
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>>
>> Sure, no problem. I started implementing a MIME class to parse the
>> message. The specification is not difficult to implement, it's just
>> large. I intend to first implement parsing the headers of the message
>> and body. The only change i made is to create a new class which
>> implements the MIME specs and make _POPMessage a child, so there
>> should be no conflicts when merging.
>>
>
> Do you use gmime?
>
> The MIME class must not depend on anything specific to Pop3Client.
>
> And you should be able to convert a string to a MIME structure
> (receiving mail) and to create a MIME structure, and then convert it to
> a string (sending mail).
>
> That way, gb.net.smtp will be able to be rewritten entirely in Gambas. :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
>
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I'm using plain Gambas. gmime is too complex and the specs don't
require anything that gambas can't do ;)

The MIMEMessage class is independent, so that if we later implement
IMAP, for example, it can be done without additional work.