Re: [Edbrowse-dev] mailx

[Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>]

Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net> writes:

> but I would need to know where you get all this cool information about 
> curl development. It's probably a thick manual, hopefully with examples.

Actually no.  Much of the library is documented with manpages, and
they are generally quite good.
But the POP and IMAP stuff isn't so well-documented.
There's some example source code, and that's about it.
The problem with IMAP support in curl is that we have to manually parse
a lot of responses that we get, for instance the response to a "list folders"
or "list messages" command.
We don't get the data in a form we can use directly.
But I wonder if we couldn't borrow code from mailx.  The version that
supports IMAP is called "heirloom-mailx", formerly known as "nail", and
it is licensed under a permissive BSD license.  So it'd be fine to
incorporate code from that project.

-- Chris