Path: usenet.cise.ufl.edu!usenet.ufl.edu!usenet.nerdc.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news.he.net!nntp.iccom.com!news.rain.net!nntp.teleport.com!news.teleport.com!not-for-mail From: kjj@primenet.com (Kevin Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules Subject: ANNOUNCE: MailFolder-0.05 Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.modules Date: 18 Mar 1997 03:27:52 GMT Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Lines: 45 Sender: news-merlyn@gadget.cscaper.com Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) Message-ID: <5gl23o$bkk$1@nadine.teleport.com> Reply-To: kjj@primenet.com NNTP-Posting-Host: gadget.cscaper.com Keywords: perl mail X-Disclaimer: The "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. Xref: usenet.cise.ufl.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:134 comp.lang.perl.modules:2142 The newest version (0.05) of the Mail::Folder module has been posted to CPAN under my author id (KJOHNSON) and name (Kevin_Johnson). Mail::Folder provides a perl module interface to email folders that is independent from the physical folders. The actual work on folders is done with folder interface modules lying 'beneath' the Mail::Folder interface. The module is in still alpha release. Think twice about using it to modify folders that you consider important (at the very least make backup copies :-). That being said, I'll mention that I use it as the sole interface to my email at home. The method interface is currently in an evaluation phase. Before it goes to beta, I expect to make method interfaces changes that won't be backwards compatible. The current version has been tested against 5.003_24 or newer. Here are some of the more notable new features and unmalfeatures added since the last release: + Big improvements in the maildir (ala qmail) folder interface. Sorry, the first whack at it was a botch. + Added get_mime_header and get_mime_message methods. + The beginnings of an NNTP folder interface. + An MUA based on pTk in the examples directory. + Various bug fixes, cleanups, and optimizations. Refer to the provided README file for additional information. I am keenly interested in feedback from folks doing interesting stuff with the package. Please report any bugs/suggestions to . Copyright (c) 1996-1997 Kevin Johnson All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. -- thx, kjj@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~kjj/