Re: Getting the To value of an email
From: Dan Mitchell (djmitchella_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/09/04
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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 07:56:33 -0700
"=?Utf-8?B?YXI=?=" <ar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Should I be looking at a more generic way of doing things now instead
> of dealing with loads of different plugins later on, or would that
> even be possible? Is there any such standard behind the plugins for
> mail clients? I'd rather a more generic approach myself but from my
> take on things this is not so possible, but then again I've only
> started with mail client plugins the other week so I'm not really up
> to speed on such things.
There's no standard way to write plugins for email clients -- Outlook is
the only thing that has anything that I know of, and nowadays it seems
pretty unlikely that anyone'll add extensibility to a mail client if they
don't _really_ have to because it just makes things open to being
exploited by viruses et al. If it's an open-source client (thunderbird,
pine, the various emacs mail plugins, etc) then you have a better chance
of working out what's going on, but anything else you're just at the mercy
of the developers of the app in question.
Depending on what you want to do, a plugin to the actual client may or
may not be the right approach in the first place, of course -- filtering
on the server / inserting POP3/SMTP proxies / etc all have different
advantages and complications.
-- dan
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