Rather unexciting update this week, as I’m still in the midst of a few things (and have been distracted by caring for a cat who had some teeth pulled… poor kitty!).
As I mentioned last week, in reading through old Trac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets, I learned that the POP3 class we’re using to read emails was originally copied over from SquirrelMail. I’ve been digging into their SVN Subversion, the popular version control system (VCS) by the Apache project, used by WordPress to manage changes to its codebase. repo in hopes of being able to adopt (1) an updated POP library that might include fixes for some of the bugs we’ve found, and (2) an IMAP library that we can similarly adapt to our own uses.
It’s an interesting adventure trying to reconstruct years of history from bug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. tracker and commit logs… at any rate, it appears the POP3 library originally came from a SquirrelMail plugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party called “mail_fetch”, which was since merged into SquirrelMail core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Complicating matters, the file was renamed from class-pop3.php to class.mail_fetch.php. But I did ultimately track it down!
However, while the development branch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch". of SquirrelMail now has “some plumbing” to support remote IMAP servers, I’m not sure whether any of that code will be useful for our needs — it’s not just still under development, but much more intertwined with the rest of SquirrelMail’s code, as opposed to being a standalone class. At this point I’m more inclined to go with a different library, and have been researching alternatives; the top contender right now is the Horde IMAP library, which also includes an abstraction layer for POP3 (but I’m open to suggestions, if anyone has a favorite). In the next week, I plan to load that into the plugin and see if I can get it working to support a wider variety of mail servers.
In other news, I’ve found myself fighting with Trac a lot lately. I’m curious how all y’all keep track of tickets — both existing ones that you want to receive notices about, and new ones coming in that might be relevant to your interests. Do you have custom searches bookmarked, an RSS feed RSS is an acronym for Real Simple Syndication which is a type of web feed which allows users to access updates to online content in a standardized, computer-readable format. This is the feed., something else? Please share any tips!
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