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| <document> |
| <properties> |
| <title>Fulcrum CommonsEmail Service</title> |
| <author email="siegfried.goeschl@it20one.at">Siegfried Goeschl</author> |
| </properties> |
| <body> |
| <section name="Technical"> |
| |
| <subsection name="Complexity"> |
| <p> |
| Your first impression might be that the implementation is |
| overly complicated - and yes, you are right. On the other |
| hand sending emails is our core business and we regularly |
| have to do the following things |
| <ul> |
| <li>Signing emails and/or attachment with X.509 certificates</li> |
| <li>Figuring out why sending en email goes wrong</li> |
| <li> |
| Archving the emails being sent using the file system, database or commercial archiving systems |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
| </subsection> |
| |
| <subsection name="Domain Centric Approach"> |
| <p> |
| The configuration of the services is centered around domains whereas |
| a domain usually maps to the mail address of the sender. A domain |
| contains all relevant configuration information for the email being |
| created or sent. |
| </p> |
| </subsection> |
| |
| <subsection name="Application Hooks"> |
| <p> |
| The service provide methods which can be overriden by a derived class. |
| Since the author has no idea about the required configuration needed by |
| a derived class the CommonsEmailDomainEntry allows access to the |
| corresponding configuration instance. |
| </p> |
| </subsection> |
| |
| <subsection name="Determining a Domain"> |
| <p> |
| The domain is determined using the following steps |
| <ul> |
| <li>take the domain matching the sender's email address (e.g. foo@bar.com)</li> |
| <li>take the domain matching the sender's domain address (e.g. bar.com)</li> |
| <li>take the default domain</li> |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
| </subsection> |
| |
| </section> |
| </body> |
| </document> |
