Re:Microsoft Bot Framework
by ocdtrekkie on Thursday March 31, 2016 @09:51AM
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If you need to support every possible way email can be sent and received (aka, you are building a generic email client), there is a lot of work you have to do.
However, if you are building a piece of software that simply communicates over email, you only have to support a relatively straightforward format for email that everyone else inherently supports.
Depending on the platform you're building on, a lot of the basics of actual email sending and receiving may be handled by the platform directly as well. I didn't have to write the SMTP handling for my code, for example, because the platform I was building my app on pretty much did it for me.
Also, the great thing about figuring out weird edge cases with email, is that email is such a widely used and universal protocol, there are literally millions of places on the Internet that have code for it or talk about it. There's a lot of resources out there.
However, if you are building a piece of software that simply communicates over email, you only have to support a relatively straightforward format for email that everyone else inherently supports.
Depending on the platform you're building on, a lot of the basics of actual email sending and receiving may be handled by the platform directly as well. I didn't have to write the SMTP handling for my code, for example, because the platform I was building my app on pretty much did it for me.
Also, the great thing about figuring out weird edge cases with email, is that email is such a widely used and universal protocol, there are literally millions of places on the Internet that have code for it or talk about it. There's a lot of resources out there.