"Travis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:59:02 -0700:
Artur Jackacy wrote... >> [Pan on MSWormOS is] a long and arduous task. Actually, bulding Gmime >> is; Pan is a piece of cake after that. > > What is a "Gmime"? MIME is short for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. MIME is defined in a set of standards track RFCs (Request For Comments, the way the documents governing Internet standards start), originally for email, but the same base has since been used in a variety of different situations (including the web, and even file associations on Unix/Linux systems) to define document type categorization. The "g" in gmime is either GNU (as in GNU Public License, the GPL) or GTK/Gnome, I'm not sure which (and at least the home page front page doesn't seem to say either). In any case, it's a GPL based MIME message handling library. More information, including a list of the MIME related RFCs, is available at the gmime home page on sourceforge: http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/ The gmime libraries are a common dependency on Linux and will often already be installed and in use for something (say a mail app) besides pan. Even where they aren't, it's normally a simple matter of installing them from your distribution's packages tree, one often taken care of automatically when one goes to install pan. Of course, the MS platforms are an entirely different ball game. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
