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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