----Original Message---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] u.org] On Behalf Of Duncan Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 04:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Pan-users] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: ANN: Pan0.108"Mama's Little Joyboy Loves Lobsters, Lobsters"
> "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. My OS is XP Home but you knew that? Do I need to know how to build Gmime in order to get the new Pan to work for me? I'm thinking this is getting to be too much for me. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
