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- From: philipp@hydre.enst.fr (Philippe-Andre Prindeville)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.multi-media
- Subject: RFC-822 toolkit or sources to *decent* reader
- Summary: Doing a MIME port -- looking for sources
- Keywords: MIME, RFC-822, toolkits, readers
- Message-ID: <2515@hydre.enst.fr>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 18:53:07 GMT
- References: <D9NkqB2w165w@bluemoon.rn.com>
- Reply-To: philipp@res.enst.fr (Philippe-Andre Prindeville)
- Followup-To: comp.sys.hp
- Organization: Telecom Paris, France
- Lines: 31
- Cc: nsb@thumber.bellcore.com, stuart@genethon.fr, justin@crim.ca
-
- Hi.
-
- First off, apologies for the cross-postings.
-
- I'm starting to develop a multi-lingual MIME mail reader for
- X (R4). First handicap is it has to run on HP-UX 8.0. Rather than
- write something from scratch, I decided to pick someone else's code
- and modify it. Unfortunately, most code (a) doesn't work when
- installed without serious tweaking and debugging (xmailtool) or
- doesn't compile at all (Mail from BSD) because of HPisms.
-
- Second liability is I have to use Motif. Sigh.
-
- I was wondering why (rather than reinvent the wheel) all
- these mail-reader writers don't just come up with an RFC-822 toolkit
- that is "correct" and build skeletal interfaces around them? Parsing
- RFC-822 is known to be a hazardous undertaking, so doing it once and
- getting it right would do the world some good. If it is encrusted
- with operating-system dependencies or the nasty details of a particular
- O.S.'s mailbox format or locking technique, it is effective useless.
-
- Bottom line: can someone point me in the direction of (a)
- either a complete mailer that has a neatly decoupled interface/mailbox
- management interface or (b) a stand-alone RFC-822 toolkit that can
- have MIME-enhancements added easily?
-
- Please respond directly to me.
-
- Thanks,
-
- -Philip
-