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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Sending emails via KMail or MailTransport library?
From:       Volker Krause <vkrause () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-09-30 11:08:06
Message-ID: 200709301308.09806.vkrause () kde ! org
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On Saturday 29 September 2007 20:59:49 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Saturday 29 September 2007, Tom Albers wrote:
> > Op za 29 sep 2007 20:25 schreef u:
> > > Email sending should eventually also be available through D-Bus,
> > > probably as a service to complement Akonadi.
> > >
> > > Actually, since "sending email" often also means storing a copy in a
> > > certain mail folder, such a service might be an Akonadi agent itself.
> >
> > Not every user uses kmail / akonadi. It is very easy to use
> > kpimidentities/mailtransport. Not saying that every user uses
> > kpimidentities/mailtransport, but at least the audience is bigger (at
> > least by 1).
>
> Sorry, I probably phrased this badly.
>
> I didn't mean to imply that applications would not use those APIs, I rather
> wanted to voice my opinion that mail sending capability would be a nice
> addition to the (via D-Bus) shared infrastructure.
>
> Even if we recommend that KDE applications rather use the APIs directly
> (the service implementation obviously would do this as well), sending mail
> is often interesting for third party applications as well (e.g.
> OpenOffice.org).

Mailtransport already has a D-Bus interface which is exported by every 
application using it. Having it always available could be easily done by a 
one-line kded module. Adding a D-Bus method for sending mails would also be 
possible, but because the use of jobs a bit more complex if you also want to 
return the result. Both are actually noted in the mailtransport TODO file 
already ;-)

regards
Volker

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