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* camel.sgml: add a blurb about camel offering
uniform interface. needs style and grammar corrections.
-
+ Talk about virtual folders.
+ Talk about lightweight messages
+ Talk about IMAP.
2000-02-28 Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>
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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>
+ <para>
+ The store/folder mechanism is a powerful and versatile
+ way of accessing mail messages. No particular asumption
+ is made on the client side, thus allowing a new way of
+ managing the mails. For example, the mails stored in the
+ folders don't necessarily have to be physically located
+ in the folder. The folder can be a pure virtual folder
+ containing only references to the actual mails.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The folder may support a index/searching mechanism
+ which allows the application to create virtual
+ folders as the result of requests. These requests
+ can be persistently associated to the virtual folders
+ so that each new mail corresponding to the request
+ is added dynamically to the virtual folder.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In addition to these possibilities, Camel has full Mime
+ supports. Camel Mime messages are lightwheight objects
+ representing the Mime skeleton of the actual mail.
+ The data contained in the Mime parts are never stored
+ in memory. The application, when accessing the various
+ mime objects contained in the message (text parts,
+ attachments, embedded binary objects ...) ask camel
+ for a stream that it can read data from.
+ These scheme allows a light and non blocking handling
+ of mime messages. It is fully compatible with IMAP and
+ obviously takes full advantage of the "load on demand"
+ feature of this popular yet rarely properly supported
+ protocol.
+ </para>
<para>
To begin using &Camel;, an application first creates a
<classname>CamelSession</classname> object. This object is used