Single API for Email access

Simon Taylor simon at unisolve.com.au
Wed Jun 12 20:33:09 CDT 2002


Scott,

> However in my case I would  like to be able to access:
> 	- IMAP
> 	- POP3
> 	- HTTPMail
> 	- Local MH
> 	- Local MBox
> 	- Apple MAC OS X MBox in strange location
> 	- Custom internal MailDir format
> 	- etc
>
> with the one API, a bit like using DBI.

I was (jokingly) going to suggest that maybe a DBD::Email, or a DBD::User 
driver might actually be a good idea, when I noticed that there is an alpha 
module called DBD::LDAP

Imagine an API so abstract that the developer could SELECT message IDs and 
INSERT new emails... ;-)

- Simon Taylor 

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