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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 along with SASL you must have cyrus-sasl-2.x.y
installed in your system, You can find cyrus-sasl at :

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

To compile and use libmail along with TLS 1.0/SSL 3.0 you must have
GnuTLS-2.x.y installed in your system, You can find GnuTLS at :

http://www.gnutls.org

-- Installation --

To install libmail you should read the INSTALL file in the current
directory.

-- 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! 

Dimitris Mandalidis