Rick McGuire wrote:
> Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
>> Stefano Bagnara wrote:
>>> Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
>>>> Why would we need both?
>>>
>>> We don't need both at the same time.
>>> But:
>>> 1) I guess that geronimo-javamail is not as stable and feature
>>> complete as the sun-javamail.
>>> 2) We use javamail 1.4 apis (geronimo-javamail seems to be 1.3
>>> compliant)
>>>
>>> So what I think we could do is adding the handling of geronimo
>>> specific stuff while keeping the default to sun.
>>> This way one could test it and find out the differences.
>>
>> 1) Maybe not as stable. What features do you think are missing?
> The version that shipped with Geronimo 1.0 was missing a lot of
> features (threw unimplemented exceptions, etc.) as well as out right
> buggy in places. The version that just shipped with 1.1 should be
> complete (the APIs anyway). The version shipping with 1.1 only
> supports SMTP. However, the newly created javamail component
> (separate build tree) supports POP3, NNTP, and NNTP-POST. IMAP is in
> the works.
So this build tree, do you mean trunk?
Regards,
Alan
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