IMAP c-client under Cygwin
I want to develop a Perl solution for accessing an IMAP server and doing things like querying messages in a folder named blahfoo, telling the server to move messages from blahfoo to cowpuddle, etc. I have researched and there is a Perl module collection for doing IMAP client stuff, but it requires UW c-client library support files to be linked in during the module build. My question concerns info on whether anyone reading has worked with IMAP and the c-client distro on Cygwin (I guess that I mean worked with more than by merely installing PINE, which i think some users might have done, but I don't know how much knowledge of building c-client that would give one if its a pre-built Cygwin binary you've installed...)? Can anyone offer pointers on building, or refinements to the source package documentation? I tried once to build it last month and it did not go well (sorry, this message cannot attempt to explain the errors, that was done last month on another system 400 miles away from where I am right now...). In this communication I am just soliciting advice and also inviting those interested to speak up and share knowledge about how to get a clean build of this lib so that we can do neat things... BTW, there is a great e-mail service provider at `fastmail.fm', that has POP3 and IMAP access as well as an intelligently designed Web interface to email (and is currently in beta, so they are not charging for use of their service -- once they start charging they promise no ads! -- ever). Check their site for details. This is the server I wish to access with the software I am aiming to develop. My GUI email client, Pegasus v4, has unfinished and problematical IMAP support. Thanks, Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
IMAP c-client under Cygwin
[I tried to send this message once but it apparently did not go through from that address. Sorry if it duplicates] I want to develop a Perl solution for accessing an IMAP server and doing things like querying messages in a folder named blahfoo, telling the server to move messages from blahfoo to cowpuddle, etc. I have researched and there is a Perl module collection for doing IMAP client stuff, but it requires UW c-client library support files to be linked in during the module build. My question concerns info on whether anyone reading has worked with IMAP and the c-client distro on Cygwin (I guess that I mean worked with more than by merely installing PINE, which i think some users might have done, but I don't know how much knowledge of building c-client that would give one if its a pre-built Cygwin binary you've installed...)? Can anyone offer pointers on building, or refinements to the source package documentation? I tried once to build it last month and it did not go well (sorry, this message cannot attempt to explain the errors in great detail, that was done last month on another system 400 miles away from where I am right now... but briefly, the source for c-client is written to expect an MSVC++ compilation environment on Win32; there is no built-in support for any alternative Win32 platform...) In this communication I am just soliciting advice and also inviting those interested to speak up and share knowledge about how to get a clean build of this lib so that we can do neat things... BTW, there is a great e-mail service provider at `fastmail.fm', that has POP3 and IMAP access as well as an intelligently designed Web interface to email (and is currently in beta, so they are not charging for use of their service -- once they start charging they promise no ads! -- ever). Check their site for details. This is the server I wish to access with the software I am aiming to develop. My GUI email client, Pegasus v4, has unfinished and problematical IMAP support. Thanks, Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: IMAP c-client under Cygwin
Hallo Soren, Am 2002-01-08 um 21:16 schriebst du: I want to develop a Perl solution for accessing an IMAP server and doing things like querying messages in a folder named blahfoo, telling the server to move messages from blahfoo to cowpuddle, etc. I have researched and there is a Perl module collection for doing IMAP client stuff, but it requires UW c-client library support files to be linked in during the module build. There is already a module for that and it builds without errors if you build the c-client of the cygwin imap package, see here what I needed to change: http://testers.cpan.org/search?request=distdist=Mail-Cclientmacid=130 My question concerns info on whether anyone reading has worked with IMAP and the c-client distro on Cygwin (I guess that I mean worked with more than by merely installing PINE, which i think some users might have done, but I don't know how much knowledge of building c-client that would give one if its a pre-built Cygwin binary you've installed...)? Can anyone offer pointers on building, or refinements to the source package documentation? You need to build the c-clientlib from source, the library isn't included in the package, but the source - http://sourceforge.net/projects/uw-imap-cygwin/ Gerrit -- =^..^=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: IMAP c-client under Cygwin
On 8 Jan 2002 at 22:56, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Am 2002-01-08 um 21:16 schriebst du: I want to develop a Perl solution for accessing an IMAP server and doing things like querying messages in a folder named blahfoo, telling the server to move messages from blahfoo to cowpuddle, etc. I have researched and there is a Perl module collection for doing IMAP client stuff, but it requires UW c-client library support files to be linked in during the module build. There is already a module for that and it builds without errors if you build the c-client of the cygwin imap package, see here what I needed to change: http://testers.cpan.org/search?request=distdist=Mail-Cclientmacid=130 Gerrit keeps coming to my aid ;-). Thank you! I will study your work, how fortunate I feel that you've been the one to do this. I asked in the right place, for once, it appears! My question concerns info on whether anyone reading has worked with IMAP and the c-client distro on Cygwin (I guess that I mean worked with more than by merely installing PINE, which i think some users might have done, but I don't know how much knowledge of building c-client that would give one if its a pre-built Cygwin binary you've installed...)? Can anyone offer pointers on building, or refinements to the source package documentation? You need to build the c-clientlib from source, the library isn't included in the package, but the source - http://sourceforge.net/projects/uw-imap-cygwin/ I understand you to mean that these files: imap-2000a-cygwin-bin.tar.gz 4454129 1,571 i386 .gz imap-2000a-cygwin-src.tar.gz 1363877 793 i386 Source .gz neither do contain a c-client.a lib? I cannot get a connection to the server to download right now; maybe in a few minutes. Until I can download I cannot look inside the archives to see what's there. Assuming I understood you correctly, what is in the binary package, is only the compiled imap library archive (and headers, naturally), is this probably correct? That would be a shortcut? Will this allow my build of the client to be more simple? The exact relationship of c-client to the imap library isn't clear to me, even after reading the maintainer's documentation over two occasions (today and last month). Maybe now it will all be simple and i won't need any more help with the UW IMAP C library part of the Perl work i want to do. I will holler if that isn't the case, tho :-). Hmm, Google didn't find this sourceforge project for me. Surprising! Thank You, Soren -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
