Andrea Cosentino

The source code of components is here: https://github.com/apache/camel/tree/master/components For each component there is a corresponding connector.

It's in camel-mail https://github.com/apache/camel/blob/master/components/camel-mail/

camel-mail contains support for different protocol, it was available starting from camel 1.0, but camel-kafka-connector is using camel 3.8.0 as base version for autogenerating the connectors. So the version you...

is the camel-smtp connector. https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/camel/kafkaconnector/camel-smtp-kafka-connector/0.8.0/camel-smtp-kafka-connector-0.8.0-package.tar.gz here https://camel.apache.org/camel-kafka-connector/latest/connectors.html

is the camel-smtp connector. https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/camel/kafkaconnector/camel-smtp-kafka-connector/0.8.0/camel-smtp-kafka-connector-0.8.0-package.tar.gz here https://camel.apache.org/camel-kafka-connector/latest/connectors.html

The connector is a thing, the component is a different thing. The connector is created for working on kafka connect, the component is created for running on multiple runtimes (plain,...

The options are mapped one to one in the connector, so I'd say yes. If you have time or want to help, you can add an example here: https://github.com/apache/camel-kafka-connector-examples if...

No, the only way is writing an SMT.

Needs to be done at camel level.

The syslog connector is a bit particular. So, no, it's not part of autogenerated catalog.