EmailDeveloping

URIS of e-mails

dumb emai:scheme

E-mails can be identified using the uri scheme email:<messageid>.

complicated but correct IMAP scheme

The uri scheme for IMAP e-mails is defined in RFC 2192

• ​http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/rfc/rfc2192.txt

some examples:

• imap://michael@minbari.org/users.*;type=list
• imap://sauermann@example.com/INBOX/ - a folder
• imap://sauermann@example.com/INBOX/;UID=234 - an e-mail
• imap://sauermann@example.com/INBOX/;UID=234/;SECTION=1.1 - a mime-part within an e-mail

Code to create uris:

• ​https://gnowsis.opendfki.de/browser/trunk/gnowsis_email/WEB-INF/src/org/gnowsis/email/config/StoreConfig.java

Code to parse uris:

• ​https://gnowsis.opendfki.de/browser/trunk/gnowsis_email/WEB-INF/src/org/gnowsis/email/config/UrlParser.java

Troubles: If we Use IMAP URIS, then we have a lot of trouble: The IMAP Uris seem to be UTF7-IMAP encoded, a weird encoding scheme for that purpose. Only I cannot get the corresponding decoder to run, it is the XPCOM class @mozilla.org/intl/unicode/decoder;1?charset=x-imap4-modified-utf7 In Java, the specified encoding seems not to be available. In PHP it is, called imap_utf7_encode(). also, it is not deterministic how this thing works, the same string can have two different UTF7-IMAP representations. Test: Böser & enc1: B&lA-ser &- enc2: B&APY-ser &-