Pete Maclean (aaddict@maclean.com)
Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:48:09 -0500
Lyndon,
Once again I am much obliged to you. Many thanks for your gracious
response. And I apologize for assuming too much (or too little depending
on how you look at it).
Pete
At 12:18 PM 12/17/2001 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> > If my grasp of ACAP is correct (and please tell me if it is not) then the
> > answer is no.
>
>It's not ;-)
>
> > Not that the problem could not be solved with ACAP -- it
> > seems to me that it could -- but it does not seem an appropriate use of
> the
> > service. Would you expect an MUA to use ACAP to obtain a list of a user's
> > mail folders? I don't think so. And if that's not appropriate then, it
> > seems to me, that it does not fit the issue in question either.
>
>You don't store the list of mail folders in ACAP. Instead, you define
>an ACAP profile that you use to map from logical folder names (outbox,
>sent mail) to specific folders on specific servers. The profile would
>also contain a mapping from the logical folder name to a locale-specific
>presentation string for use by the MUA. In this way you have completely
>abstracted the logical folders from the implementation space. By using
>ACAP inheritance you can set a default logical folder namespace, and
>then override it on a per-server, per-clienthost, per-mua-type, and
>per-language basis (or via combinations of these).
>
>
>--lyndon
>
>Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.
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