SM Email Rendering Engine Outside of SM

[Joshua Megerman-4]

Has anyone ever pulled the SM email rendering engine out for a standalone
project?  I'm working on an email archive system that doesn't use IMAP,
and being able to view messages the way SM formats them (can show the
headers, view as either plain text or HTML, access the attachments) would
be really nice.  I'm quite fond of SM as a webmail system, and would love
to be able to use it for my current project since viewing anythign other
than plain text emails as plain text is going to give the non-technical
users fits :)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions/pointers/etc.

Josh

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[Paul Lesniewski]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Joshua Megerman
<squirrelmail@...> wrote:
> Has anyone ever pulled the SM email rendering engine out for a standalone
> project?

I don't think so.  I don't even know what part of SM would qualify as
the "email rendering engine".

> I'm working on an email archive system that doesn't use IMAP,
> and being able to view messages the way SM formats them (can show the
> headers, view as either plain text or HTML, access the attachments) would
> be really nice.  I'm quite fond of SM as a webmail system, and would love
> to be able to use it for my current project since viewing anythign other
> than plain text emails as plain text is going to give the non-technical
> users fits :)
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions/pointers/etc.

You'd probably have to replace all the IMAP functions in the various
functions/imap_* files, replacing all the API calls with functions
that access your custom mail store.  Some day in the future of the
1.5.x code, the IMAP backend will be modularized, and while the core
assumption that you are using it with an IMAP server may not change,
this may make an API swap-out a little more feasible.

Cheers,

 Paul

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[Joshua Megerman-4]

On Thursday 08 May 2008 06:58:43 pm Paul Lesniewski wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Joshua Megerman
>
> <squirrelmail@...> wrote:
> > Has anyone ever pulled the SM email rendering engine out for a standalone
> > project?
>
> I don't think so.  I don't even know what part of SM would qualify as
> the "email rendering engine".
>
Well, I'm thinking of the right pane code that's used when actually "reading"
an email.  The part that can display either plain text or HTML, as well s
stripping out attachments and allowing them to be viewed/downloaded.

> > I'm working on an email archive system that doesn't use IMAP,
> > and being able to view messages the way SM formats them (can show the
> > headers, view as either plain text or HTML, access the attachments) would
> > be really nice.  I'm quite fond of SM as a webmail system, and would love
> > to be able to use it for my current project since viewing anythign other
> > than plain text emails as plain text is going to give the non-technical
> > users fits :)
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions/pointers/etc.
>
> You'd probably have to replace all the IMAP functions in the various
> functions/imap_* files, replacing all the API calls with functions
> that access your custom mail store.  Some day in the future of the
> 1.5.x code, the IMAP backend will be modularized, and while the core
> assumption that you are using it with an IMAP server may not change,
> this may make an API swap-out a little more feasible.
>

OK, so if I want to do this, I'm probably on my own.  S'alright, it won't be
the first time I've had to dig deep into unfamiliar code to figure out if
something's possible :)  Thanks for the response!

Josh
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[Thijs Kinkhorst]

On Friday 9 May 2008 02:31, Joshua Megerman wrote:
> OK, so if I want to do this, I'm probably on my own.  S'alright, it won't
> be the first time I've had to dig deep into unfamiliar code to figure out
> if something's possible :)  Thanks for the response!

I've done this in the past by just copying code from read_body and mime.php
and adjusting it where I needed to. Of course not ideal, but it was doable.

SquirrelMail has grown very organically and that shows in its code structure..


cheers,
Thijs

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