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diff --git a/help/white-papers/mail/ChangeLog b/help/white-papers/mail/ChangeLog index 9d29b5d7a4..9e3830a238 100644 --- a/help/white-papers/mail/ChangeLog +++ b/help/white-papers/mail/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2000-02-28 Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com> + + * camel.sgml: add Bertrand to authors, edit his additions + 2000-02-28 bertrand <bertrand@helixcode.com> * camel.sgml: add a blurb about camel offering diff --git a/help/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml b/help/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml index 7feda4dcd2..44b615a9ed 100644 --- a/help/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml +++ b/help/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml @@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ </address> </affiliation> </author> + + <author> + <firstname>Bertrand</firstname> + <surname>Guiheneuf</surname> + <affiliation> + <address> + <email>bertrand@helixcode.com</email> + </address> + </affiliation> + </author> </authorgroup> <copyright> @@ -48,50 +58,51 @@ </para> </sect1> - <sect1 id="overview"> - <title>Overview</title> + <sect1 id="features"> + <title>Features</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> - <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. + &Camel; sees all message 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 + an external provider mechanism which allows applications to + dynamically load and use protocols which were not available when + the application was initially written. </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. + The abstract store/folder mechanism is a powerful and versatile + way of accessing messages. No particular asumptions are made on + the client side, thus allowing new ways of managing the + messages. For example, the messages stored in the folders don't + necessarily have to share some common physical location. The + folder can be a purely virtual folder, containing only + references to the actual messages. This is used by the "vFolder" + provider, which allows you select messages meeting particular + criteria and deal with them as a group. </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. + In addition to these possibilities, &Camel; has full MIME + support. &Camel; MIME messages are lightweight objects + representing the MIME skeleton of the actual message. The data + contained in the subparts are never stored in memory except when + they are actually needed. The application, when accessing the + various MIME objects contained in the message (text parts, + attachments, embedded binary objects ...) asks &Camel; for a + stream that it can read data from. This scheme is particularly + useful with the IMAP provider. IMAP has strong MIME support + built-in, which allows &Camel; to download only the parts of + messages that it actually needs: attachments need not be + downloaded until they are viewed, and unnecessary + "multipart/alternative" parts will never be read off the server. </para> + </sect1> + + <sect1 id="overview"> + <title>Overview</title> + <para> To begin using &Camel;, an application first creates a <classname>CamelSession</classname> object. This object is used |