Remove the mail plugin from platform

Development
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Hi devs,

We’ve already decided to remove the mail plugin in https://markmail.org/message/b3lppo74m547xe5g

However, similar to Removal of SVG plugin I’d like to propose that we don’t move it to the attic for the same reasons (no doc on xwiki.org, no module for it, would take too much time to create a project and a pom for it for little value).

Would that be ok for you?

Thanks

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You are talking only about MailPlugin, not MailSenderPluginApi, right ?

I had totally forgotten this thing even existed (I’m actually not sure I ever knew it did), and I really doubt anyone is using that. It’s not here to send mails but to read mails even if it’s not very clear to me how it finds it, it seems to be using a Servlet API to access them which suggest mails managed (or at least referenced) by the application server which is a strange concept to me.

So yes, +0.

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yes :slight_smile: I’d like to remove this one too but that’s for later. First we need to remove its usage in the share page feature.

It was a POC to be able to update XWiki content by sending emails to XWiki AFAIR (on the xwiki side, I think it was reading emails from an inbox).