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authorJeffrey Stedfast <fejj@ximian.com>2001-07-03 02:26:45 +0800
committerJeffrey Stedfast <fejj@src.gnome.org>2001-07-03 02:26:45 +0800
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2001-06-29 Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj@ximian.com> * white-papers/mail/camel.sgml: Updated slightly. * Camel-Classes: Updated. svn path=/trunk/; revision=10692
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diff --git a/doc/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml b/doc/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml
index a339909f54..5f5ea27a98 100644
--- a/doc/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml
+++ b/doc/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml
@@ -10,6 +10,26 @@
<authorgroup>
<author>
+ <firstname>Jeffrey</firstname>
+ <surname>Stedfast</surname>
+ <affiliation>
+ <address>
+ <email>fejj@helixcode.com</email>
+ </address>
+ </affiliation>
+ </author>
+
+ <author>
+ <firstname>Michael</firstname>
+ <surname>Zucchi</surname>
+ <affiliation>
+ <address>
+ <email>notzed@helixcode.com</email>
+ </address>
+ </affiliation>
+ </author>
+
+ <author>
<firstname>Dan</firstname>
<surname>Winship</surname>
<affiliation>
@@ -31,8 +51,8 @@
</authorgroup>
<copyright>
- <year>2000</year>
- <holder>Helix Code, Inc.</holder>
+ <year>2000, 2001</year>
+ <holder>Ximian, Inc.</holder>
</copyright>
</artheader>
@@ -103,7 +123,7 @@
<graphic format="gif" fileref="camel"></graphic>
<para>
- To begin using &Camel;, an application first creates a
+ To begin using &Camel;, an application first creates subclassed
<classname>CamelSession</classname> object. This object is used
to store application defaults, and to coordinate communication
between providers and the application.
@@ -112,7 +132,7 @@
<para>
A <classname>CamelProvider</classname> is a dynamically-loadable
module that provides functionality associated with a specific
- service. Examples of providers are IMAP and SMTP. Providers
+ service. Examples of providers are POP, IMAP and SMTP. Providers
include subclasses of the various other &Camel; classes for
accessing and manipulating messages.
</para>
@@ -123,7 +143,7 @@
currently has two subclasses: <classname>CamelStore</classname>,
for services that store messages (such as IMAP servers and mbox
files), and <classname>CamelTransport</classname>, for services
- that deliver messages (such as SMTP, or a local MTA). A provider
+ that deliver messages (such as SMTP or a local MTA). A provider
could also be both a store and a transport, as in the case of
NNTP.
</para>
@@ -209,10 +229,7 @@
<classname>CamelFolder</classname> must assign a permanently
unique identifier to each message it contains. Messages can
then be retrieved via
- <function>CamelFolder::get_message_by_uid</function>. Alternately,
- within a single mail-reading session, messages can be referred
- to by their linear position within the store using
- <function>CamelFolder::get_message_by_number</function>.
+ <function>CamelFolder::get_message</function>.
</para>
<para>
@@ -328,9 +345,9 @@
</para>
<para>
- Streams can also be chained together. So a CamelMimePart
+ Streams can also be filtered. So a CamelMimePart
containing base64-encoded data can filter its output through
- a CamelStreamB64. Other parts of the application that want
+ CamelMimeFilterBasic. Other parts of the application that want
to read its data will never need to even realize that the
original data was encoded.
</para>