Mail Client in Squeak
Eliot & Linda
elcm at pacbell.net
Wed Jul 1 23:15:28 UTC 1998
James O'Connor wrote:
>
> Randy,
>
> >Does anyone have an idea about how hard it would be to build an email
> >client in Squeak?
>
> I played with writing email clients in various dialects of Smalltalk using
> SMTP protocol for sending and POP3 for receiving. The biggest hurdles I've
> encountered are: 1) Attachments - properly encoding and decoding
> attachments 2) What do do with the mail (how do I store/organize) incoming
> and outgoing mail. Other than that, it's pretty straight forward.
and grab STAMP from the parc goodies in the VisualWorks Non-Commercial
distribution. It contains a base64 decoder and I have a uuencode
decoder for it also. No encoders yet. STAMP also manages multiple
folders etc. I use it as my mail client at work.
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Eliot
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