Re: [Caml-list] mboxlib reloaded ;-)

[Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 11:45:11AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 04:18:12PM +0200, Oliver Bandel wrote:
> > The main intend of the lib (ys, a library, not a certain
> > application) was to have a tool at hand, that makes
> > complex things achievable easy.
> [...]
> >      let mymatch = match_header_regexp ".*richard" NoCase
> [...]
> > Opens the mbox-file "MB1" and writes
> > all mails with the "richard"-string in the header
> > to the mbox-file "MB1.ready".
> 
> There's a whole lots of issues that this doesn't cover.  For example,
> what about internationalised headers using the (rather crazy) syntax
> defined in RFC 2047?


Aha, ok, you say there must be UTF-8 compatibility....
...well I have not thought about this... well...
...good hint!


...any bindings for UTF-8-libs for OCaml avialable somewhere?
Or other necessary things?

Maybe using already available C-libs and only add an
OCaml-binding might make sense?

Any idea on that?

Ciao,
   Oliver