• Conversation with Brian
  • Talked about mail content model, and it looks like we'll have (at least) two Kinds: Message (an RFC822 message) and MIME Part (name is TBD).
  • Still up in the air whether we need separate Kinds for all the various types of MIME
  • Seems like a delivery status flag (which just so happens to exist in the schema ) can take care of the following states:
    • Draft (User has created the item but hasn't told the SMTP service to send it)
    • Ready-to-Send (User has told the SMTP service to send it, but it hasn't attempted to yet -- offline, perhaps)
    • Sending (We might not need this, but potentially you would want the SMTP service to flag an item with this while it's being processed)
    • Sent (SMTP service has transferred the message to the SMTP server, with no immediate error)
    • Retrying (The SMTP service got back a message saying that the SMTP server will keep retrying to deliver the message for a few days -- because the recipient's SMTP server is down, perhaps)
    • Error (The message could not be delivered)
  • It will be interesting to see if we can match a bounced message to the original outbound item, which would be cool; that would then take an item from the Sent state to the Error or Retrying states
  • Useful link describing content-types

-- MorgenSagen - 06 Aug 2004