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State [edit]
Build [edit]
Grendel's build system is based on Apache Ant and requires Java 1.5 to compile.
Librarys [edit]
Grendel requires a large collection of Libraries. Many of these librarys are quite old and may no longer be maintained. Hopefully these will slowly be replaced.
News [edit]
News is currently provided by GNU JavaMail's NNTP Providers. These are faster and more reliable that Grendel's own NNTP Providers.
POP3 [edit]
POP3 is currently provided by Sun JavaMail's POP3 Provider as it works.
Plans [edit]
These are plans for where Grendel is going. Some of these are short term others may be long term.
General [edit]
- Resources contained in resources-specific directory instead of flying all over the place.
UI [edit]
- Moving to the Mozilla-friendly XUL instead of a Grendel-specific XML format for the UI design. (Bug 293079 using the MozCreator Java XUL Parser API
- Drag & Drop conversion from builtin grendel.dnd to Java 2 java.awt.dnd, or vast improvements in the builtin grendel.dnd code.
JavaMail [edit]
Add transparent JavaMail caching for remote message stores. (Currently discussing/working with Tim Boudreau on this.)
POP3 [edit]
- Use the proper way to view POP3 mail by downloading to a local store. (To be implemented as a download to given folder, this allows customization)
- This should support a session flag for leave mail on server.
HTML Message Viewing [edit]
- The HTML display in the JTextPane is poor, this needs replaced.
- The
<blockquote type="cite">should be interpreted, processed and formatted as an included message quote. - HTML Messages nead to be cleaned prior to being displayed, to ensure they are valid and are safe.
Message Search [edit]
Search Within [edit]
This should be done as fast and as easily as possible. The String class offers basic string searching; the regex libraries might be better.
Search For [edit]
Currently there is no "Index" of all the messages and keywords within them. The only way to search for a message is an Exhaustive search of the possible region.
The messages should be indexed to keywords with some kind of tidy option.
- The indexer must not download data directly
- The indexer should be fed a message body when it is read by the user, (to save bandwidth)
- The indexer must run in the background with minimal memory
- This could be done by appending the message to a file then which is slowly consumed by the indexer.
- The could be an option to make the indexer consume the whole file "now" (incress the priority of the thread)
Message Filters [edit]
Message filters should be implemented accorinding to Grendel:Specification:Filters
Addressbook [edit]
The New Addressbook code supports
- IMAP
- Built against the latest Mozilla Java IMAP SDK
- With write options to the IMAP directory
- Built against the latest Mozilla Java IMAP SDK
- JDBC
- Builtin support for enbedded local databases as Address Books
- embedded Derby
- embedded HSQLDB
- Builtin support for enbedded local databases as Address Books
- An extended attribute set.
- Uses subclasses of Generic Collections to return lists.
- Can be converted to lists of subclasses of java.mail.Address
- These will be the correct type InternetAddress and NewsAddress
- Can be converted to lists of subclasses of java.mail.Address
Pending Changes [edit]
This section details implemented or nearly implemented code that has not been checked into the CVS
Backend API(s) [edit]
The new Backend API code is currently waiting for a patch to be reviewed
Message Renderer refactor [edit]
There are changes to the Message Renderer (grendel.renderer.*) that are waiting on the new Backend API(s)
