Re: Turn Turnsole into a generic mail client

Subject: Re: Turn Turnsole into a generic mail client

Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:16:45 -0400

To: William Morgan

Cc: notmuch, Sup developer discussion

From: Vivien Didelot


Hi William,

I'm not suggesting to make Heliotrope supports several clients (what it
already does via  provinding JSON),
I'm suggesting the make the Turnsole interface modulable to several mail
sources.
And its default and official one will be the Heliotrope client for sure.

I hope it is clearer.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:01 PM, William Morgan <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>wrote:

> Hi Vivien,
>
> Reformatted excerpts from Vivien Didelot's message of 2011-06-19:
> > As Turnsole is a great mail interface, I was thinking about having it
> > generic to multiple servers or mail sources, to fit many use cases.
> >
> > Explicitely, the Turnsole::Client class (
> > https://github.com/wmorgan/turnsole/blob/master/lib/turnsole/client.rb)
> > could be turned into a Turnsole::Client module instead,
>
> The server portion of turnsole, heliotrope, is explicitly designed to
> support multiple clients and provides a JSON-over-HTTP interface for
> that purpose.
>
> The specifics of the protocol are still subject to change, but see e.g.
> https://github.com/wmorgan/heliotrope/blob/master/lib/heliotrope-client.rb
> for the ruby client that turnsole uses to communicate with the server.
> --
> William <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>
>



-- 
Vivien Didelot,
vivien.didelot.org

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