wodImapServer

The WeOnlyDo! COM ImapServer ActiveX control is a component that provides a full IMAP4rev1 protocol server implementation. It can be easily integrated into your applications by putting it on a VB form and calling its Start method. This allows it to accept connections from clients immediately. The control fully supports commands that are defined in RFC2060.

Although the wodImapServer is a COM object and not the full application, developers should be aware of a few things. This is because COM objects cannot deal with information that should be preserved between sessions. The most important thing to look after is to keep the UID information (UNIQUE ID) for folders and messages. By doing so, wodImapServer will work flawlessly with any client that connects to it.

On each client action, the wodImapServer will fire an appropriate event where you can internally handle the action and return a positive or negative result. You should also deal with message flags, as wodImapServer does not deal with message storage. You should do this by yourself.

The wodImapServer will deal with structures and references to folders and messages, but the actual contents of messages cannot be handled by wodImapServer. Rather, it will depend on your code when messages are accessed - hoping that you provided properly formatted messages and proper flag information. If you don't, it will not complain, but IMAP clients may.

It's important to consider all wodImapServer folders as virtual folders - none of them necessarily exist on your system. Each time the wodImapServer requires a list of folders or messages, an event is fired to notify you to populate its collections with the appropriate information - that's all. You can keep messages in a database or on an external system, or wherever you need - as long as you can provide the necessary information on wodImapServer's request.