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This is the GNU mailutils package |
This is the GNU mailutils package |
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This package contains a POP3 server and a simple replacement for |
This package contains a series of useful mail clients, servers, and |
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`/bin/mail'. An IMAP4 server is being worked on. These applications |
libraries. These are the primary mail utilities of the GNU system. |
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are tied around a central library that handles all mailbox activity |
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called libmailbox. If you want to use this in your own programs, see |
Specifically, this package contains a pop3 server, and an imap4 |
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the examples subdirectory. |
server. It also provides a POSIX `mailx' client, and a collection of |
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other tools. |
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The library is licensed under the GNU LGPL. The documentation is |
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licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. All other code is |
The central library is capable of reading mail from an `mbox' mailbox, |
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licensed under the GNU GPL. See the files COPYING, COPYING.LIB, and |
as well as off of local or remote pop3 and imap4 servers. |
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COPYING.FDL for details. |
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You're welcome to use this library in your own programs, please see |
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the examples subdirectory or these other applications. All libraries |
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are licensd using the GNU LGPL. The documentation is licensed under |
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the GNU FDL, and the Sieve library is licensed under a CMU license. |
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Everything else is licensed using the GNU GPL. |
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This software is part of the GNU project and belongs to the Free Software |
This software is part of the GNU project and belongs to the Free Software |
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Foundation. |
Foundation. |
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Why use this package? |
Why use this package? |
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Most POP3 servers load the entire email box into RAM and deal with it |
This package started off to try and handle large mailbox files more |
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there. This server, instead, creates an index in RAM of all of the messages |
gracefully then current pop3 servers did. While it handles this task, |
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in the mailbox, allowing for quick access. You can expect this server |
it also allows you to support a variety of different mailbox formats |
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to use approx 750kb base code (on IA32) + 32 bytes per message indexed. |
without any real effort on your part. Also, if a new format is added |
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at a later date, your program will support that new format |
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automatically as soon as it is compiled against the new library. |
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This server is also released as part of Debian, so you should expect |
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it to compile cleanly on all the platforms supported there. |
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How to install |
How to install |
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