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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:58:30 +0100
From: "Alan D. Cabrera" <list@toolazydogs.com>
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Subject: Re: geronimo javamail and James (Was: [RTC] Removal of the
 javamail-transport
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Rick McGuire wrote:
> Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
>> 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?
>
> There are multiple pieces to the javamail support.  The first piece is 
> the specs, which is in the specs build tree.  In Geronimo 1.1, the 
> SMTP provider that went with this was a module in Geronimo 
> (javamail-transport).  A couple weeks ago, I created a new javamail 
> repository that contains all of the providers.  This project also 
> builds an uber-jar that contains the specs and the providers.  The 
> source for this is:
>
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/javamail/trunk
>
>
> One of the javamail changes I recently submitted for [RTC] review will 
> remove the javamail-transport module from the Geronimo code tree, and 
> replace it with a dependency on the javamail-providers jar file.
Thanks for the info Rick.


Regards,
Alan