From 7c985506fa8f73d0b8fbc49ea3ab980e1a4fa3c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeffrey Stedfast Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 23:04:06 +0000 Subject: applied a update patch svn path=/trunk/; revision=15230 --- camel/README | 19 +++++-------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'camel') diff --git a/camel/README b/camel/README index 7449ae7cf6..89b57ad3c7 100644 --- a/camel/README +++ b/camel/README @@ -11,15 +11,9 @@ Introduction: ------------- -[ NB. Camel has been written now. Please convert future tense to -present tense. Thank you. - - -- Peter Williams 7/2/2001 -] - -Camel will be a generic messaging library. It will evntually support -the standard messaging system for receiving and sending messages. -It aims at being the backend for the future gnome-mailer system. +Camel is a generic messaging library. It supports the standard +messaging system for receiving and sending messages. It is the +messaging backend for Evolution. The name "camel" stands for ... nothing. Open area of development there. You know, that "bazaar" thing. Maybe could we organize a big contest on @@ -29,21 +23,18 @@ Camel draws heavily from JavaMail and the IMAP4rev1 RFC. People wanting to hack on a provider should read the JavaMail API specification, but CMC and MAPI are of interest too. -Please, before starting anything, wait for me to finish the abstract -classes. Some parts are not definitive yet. - Organization: ------------- The library is roughly a set of abstract classes, some kind of generic -"interfaces" (idl interfaces, not java interfaces ). +"interfaces" (IDL interfaces, not Java interfaces). Particular implementations are called providers. Here are the basic objects: -* CamelService : an abstract class representing an access to a server. +* CamelService : An abstract class representing an access to a server. Handles the connection and authentication to any server. * CamelStore (CamelService): A hierarchy of folders on a server. -- cgit v1.2.3