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Subject: Re: [Kde-pim] Sending emails via KMail or MailTransport library?
From: Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date: 2007-09-30 11:52:01
Message-ID: 200709301352.07991.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at
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On Sunday 30 September 2007, Volker Krause wrote:
> On Saturday 29 September 2007 20:59:49 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > 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.
Ah, great!
I think this is totally sufficient, maybe even better than an additional
service.
> 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.
Some use cases are "Open and pre-fill a composer window", so this would have
to be handled by a real MUA anyway.
A separate service would probably only be needed if there is no MUA with
respective D-Bus capabilities registered.
> Both are actually noted in the mailtransport TODO
> file already ;-)
Interesting. I should check the non-code files more often :)
Cheers,
Kevin
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Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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