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libmail - A mail handling library

-- Description --

libmail is a C library which intend to ease the development of mail
checking programs, providing, in the course of time, full support of mail
checking protocols such as POP3 and IMAP along with efficiency and security.

-- Prerequisities --

To compile and use libmail you must have cyrus-sasl-2.x.y install in your
system, You can find cyrus-sasl at :

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/sasl-library.html

-- Installation --

To install libmail you should read the INSTALL file in the current
directory (default options should be enough for regular use).

-- Linking --

To link your programs against libmail try the following :

$ gcc -o foobar foobar.c -lmail

provided that you have a properly configured system (hint: /etc/ld.so.conf)

-- SVN --

You can fetch libmail's current source code through :

svn co https://libmail.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/libmail/trunk/libmail your_working_path 

-- Notes --

libmail is hosted on SourceForge (http://libmail.sourceforge.net)

Bugs to : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=251539&atid=1126791
Mailing lists at : http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=251539

A final note : I 'm maintaining libmail in my Copious Free Time (TM) and as
the general open source philosophy suggests, any help would be very
appreciated, especially on porting issues.

Enjoy! (after having checked libmail_pop3(3), libmail_imap4(3),
libmail_mbox(3) and libmail_maildir(3))

Dimitris Mandalidis