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<p><span class="application">LibMAIL</span> is a C++ E-mail
access library, which provides a high-level API for accessing
E-mail messages stored on POP3 and IMAP servers, or in local
mail folders; and for sending mail via ESMTP, or the local
<span class="command"><strong>sendmail</strong></span>
command. <span class="application">LibMAIL</span> also serves
as a platform for development of a new experimental network
mail access protocol, <a class="link" href="smap1.html" title="Appendix A. Simple Mail Access Protocol, Version 1" shape="rect">SMAP</a>, that offers additional capabilities
not available in IMAP and POP3.</p>
<p>If available, SSL/TLS is used automatically (when it is
supported by the remote server); as such, applications must
also link to either GnuTLS or OpenSSL libraries (depending on
what <span class="application">LibMAIL</span> was compiled
against) in addition to linking with <code class="filename">libmail.a</code>.</p>
<p><span class="application">LibMAIL</span> is currently in
active development. Right now the primary development focus
is on the Linux platform and the gcc compiler. <span class="application">LibMAIL</span> will probably build on other
POSIX platforms; any errors are likely to be minor, and
trivial to resolve. A large portion of <span class="application">LibMAIL</span> 's code base is imported from a
related project that is known to be stable on all modern
operating systems.</p>
<p>At this time, <span class="application">LibMAIL</span> is
built as part of the <a class="link" href="cone00index.html" title="Cone mail client" shape="rect"><span class="application">Cone</span></a> mail client, which has some
additional dependencies, namely: curses, <a class="ulink" href="http://xmlsoft.org" target="_top" shape="rect">libxml2</a>, and <a class="ulink" href="http://www.openssl.org" target="_top" shape="rect">OpenSSL</a> or <a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnutls.org" target="_top" shape="rect">GnuTLS</a>. <span class="application">LibMAIL</span>
itself only needs OpenSSL or GnuTLS, but for now the only way
to build <span class="application">LibMAIL</span> is by
building <span class="application">Cone</span> with the
<code class="literal">--with-devel</code> option.</p>
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