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+2000-02-28 bertrand <bertrand@helixcode.com>
+
+ * camel.sgml: add a blurb about camel offering
+ uniform interface. needs style and grammar corrections.
+
+
2000-02-28 Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>
* camel.sgml: Beginnings of a Camel white paper
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<title>Overview</title>
<para>
+ Camel sees all mail repositories as stores containing
+ folders. These folders in turn contain the messages
+ the client actually accesses. The use of such a unified
+ interface allows the client applications to be very
+ extensible. Camel includes a provider mechnism which
+ allows the application to be written once, and access
+ the various mail protocols when camel supports them.
+ <para>
To begin using &Camel;, an application first creates a
<classname>CamelSession</classname> object. This object is used
to store application defaults, and to coordinate communication