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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Kde SMTP/POP3 App
From:       "Christian Oppel" <uzs84g () uni-bonn ! de>
Date:       2000-04-08 16:38:12
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Thanks
Christian Oppel


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Rik Hemsley <rik@kde.org>
An: kde-devel@kde.org <kde-devel@kde.org>
Datum: Samstag, 8. April 2000 17:17
Betreff: Re: Kde SMTP/POP3 App


>#if Christian Oppel
>> The POP3 is at very early stage (much of the whole thing is).
>
>If you work on a client that is integrated with KDE, you can use
>the POP3 kioslave, so POP is practically done for you, plus it's
>async :)
>
>> I think it is very important to have an html displayer so that you can
use
>> html formated emails.
>> I have not started yet in that direction.
>
>Easy. Just embed an HTML viewer for HTML messages. You can see how
>this is done on developer.kde.org, where there is a tutorial on writing
>a web browser.
>
>> Basically programming a Network Client in Java is more easily done in C++
I
>> think.
>> That does not exclude doing it in C++, though I do not quite like the
Unix
>> Socket Methods.
>
>This is what we have kio for. Async transparent network access. No
>network programming needed within the app itself.
>
>> A modular approach seems to be the right way though I believe in create
an
>> integrated app (Webbrowser,
>> email Client and maybe HTML Webpage Creation).
>
>That is quite possible. You just embed some konqueror views, your mail
>client's widgets, and an HTML editor (which you'd have to write, as
>there isn't one ;)
>
>Rik
>

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