This blog post summarizes week #11 of the Google Summer of Code 2016 project - Mailhandler. Time flies and it is already the last phase of this year’s Google Summer of Code 2016. The project is not over yet and I would like to update you on the progress I made last week. In the last blog post I was writing about the problems I faced in week 10 and how we decided to do code refactoring instead of UI/UX work. The plan for the last week was to update Mailhandler with the newly introduced changes in Inmail as well as work on new user-interface related issues. Since this was the last week of issues work before doing the project documentation, I used the time to polish the code as much as possible.

As you may know, Inmail got new features on the default analyzer result. Since this change was suggested by Mailhandler, the idea was to remove Mailhandler specific analyzer result and use the default one instead. It allows the core module (and any other Inmail-based module) to use the standardized result across all enabled analyzers. The main benefit of this is to support better collaboration between analyzer plugins.
Even though Mailhandler updates were not planned to take a lot of time, it turned to be opposite. Hopefully, the long patch passed all the tests and was fixed in Use DefaultAnalyzerResult instead of Mailhandler specific one issue.
It was needed to not only replace the Mailhandler-specific analyzer result but to use user context and context concept in general as well. Each of the 5 Mailhandler analyzers were updated to “share” their result. Also, non-standard features of each of the analyzers are available as contexts. Later on, in the handler processing phase, handler plugins can access those contexts and extract the needed information.

The second part of the available work time was spent on user interface issues, mostly on improving Inmail. Mailhandler as a module is set of Inmail plugins and configuration files and in discussion with mentors, we agreed that improving the user interface of Inmail is actually an improvement to Mailhandler too.
IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) as a standard message protocol is supported by Inmail. It is the main Inmail deliverer and UI/UX improvements were really needed there. In order to use it, valid credentials are requested. One of the DX validation patterns is to validate those credentials via a separate “Test connection” button.
 

In the previous blog posts, I mentioned a power of Monitoring module. It provides an overall monitoring of a Drupal website via nice UI. Since it is highly extensible, making Inmail support it would be a nice feature. Among the most important things to monitor was a quota of an IMAP plugin. This allows an administrator to see the "health state" of this plugin and to react timely. The relevant issue needs a few corrections, but it is close to be finished too.

Seeing that some of the issues mentioned above are still in “Needs review” or “Needs work” state, I will spend additional time this week in order to finish them. The plan for the following week is to finish the remaining issues we started and focus on the module documentation. The module documentation consist of improving plugin documentation (similary to api.drupal.org), Drupal.org project page, adding a Github read me, installation manuals, code comments, demo article updates and most likely everything related to describing the features of the module.