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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] UI abstraction proposal (partially only)
From:       Zack Rusin <zack () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-06-04 9:58:34
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On Wednesday 04 June 2003 11:31, Luis Pedro Coelho wrote:
> Well, the current DCOP interafces are very limited. They were not
> designed for and don't allow one to write a text-based mail client (I
> think).

And that's one of the problems we're trying to solve.

> What I meant to say is that if kmail-core has powerful enough
> interfaces, be they accessible through DCOP, IMAP or something
> different, then is kmail-core not functionally similiar to an IMAP
> server from the point of view of those UI-apps like the kmail-gui or
> those text-ui kmail ingo talks about above?

No. 

> I am not even saying this is a bad thing, it might even make sense to
> have kmail-core export an IMAP like interface to the mailboxes it
> manages (which could even be accessed from a kmail-core in another
> box, recursivelly).

No it doesn't. It doesn't make sense because the core will never act as 
a server, it's the exposure of the DCOP interfaces that allows it to 
communicate with other apps. Remember that we allow only local 
connections to DCOP. Also note that this not about viewing messages but 
a lot more fain grained communication. We already have 
MailTransportIface and kmailicalIface and those are the ones that 
should be run without GUI and there's no way to map those to imap.

Zack
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