[jdev] RFC 3921 message to RFC 5322 message conversion

[Norman Rasmussen]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:44 PM, chris johnston <ctofur at gmail.com> wrote:

> You may want to investigate the transport
> http://xmpppy.sourceforge.net/mail/  for a base application to improve as
> you need.
>  I have used this transport with eJabberD and is very simple to setup.
>

Good to hear :-)

If anyone finds bugs/has suggestions/patches, feel free to ping me with
details.


> -Chris
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Tomasz Sterna <tomek at xiaoka.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I am working on accessing jabber message archive with IMAP and a normal
>> MUA with IMAP backend.
>>
>> This begs a question: How do I convert RFC 3921 message, to RFC 5322
>> message to store in IMAP store. (But it may also be useful for
>> Jabber/E-Mail gateway.)
>>
>> 1. How do i store 'from' and 'to' fields of the XMPP message?
>> RFC 5322 defines From: as mailbox-list and To: as address-list which in
>> turn reduces to addr-spec which does not include schema and is assumed
>> to be in SMTP domain. ":" is used to delimiter group names so we cannot
>> use XMPP URI there.
>> - Should I add X- header for preserving XMPP 'from' field? What exact?
>> - Should I fill From: and To: fields to maka maile readers usable?
>>
>> 2. Subject: header is straightforward
>>
>> 3. <thread/> converts directly to References:
>> - what if there is no <thread/>? Should I supplement it? How?
>>
>> 4. Should I generate Message-ID header? If so, how? Maybe it would be
>> useful to base it on some of the message characteristics?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tomasz Sterna
>> Xiaoka.com
>>
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