Checking mail with TCL

[Chad Guebert]

Is there a package similar to the http one that can be used to check an
e-mail server?

Thanks
Chad

[Darren New]

Chad Guebert wrote:
> Is there a package similar to the http one that can be used to check an
> e-mail server?

TclLib has a POP3 client that works fairly well.

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[Donal K. Fellows]

Darren New wrote:
> Chad Guebert wrote:
>> Is there a package similar to the http one that can be used to check an
>> e-mail server?
>
> TclLib has a POP3 client that works fairly well.

Is there an IMAP client anywhere as well? (CVS says there isn't one in tcllib,
but maybe someone else has something...?)

Donal.
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[Hemang Lavana]

"Donal K. Fellows" wrote:
> >
> > TclLib has a POP3 client that works fairly well.
>
> Is there an IMAP client anywhere as well? (CVS says there isn't one in
> tcllib, but maybe someone else has something...?)

I beleive tkbiff has support for IMAP:

http://expect.nist.gov/tkbiff/

Hemang.

[Michael Schlenker]

Donal K. Fellows wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>
>>Chad Guebert wrote:
>>
>>>Is there a package similar to the http one that can be used to check an
>>>e-mail server?
>>>
>>TclLib has a POP3 client that works fairly well.
>>
>
> Is there an IMAP client anywhere as well? (CVS says there isn't one in tcllib,
> but maybe someone else has something...?)
>
> Donal.
>

TKbiff has some IMAP code in it, maybe it can be ripped?

Michael Schlenker

[lvi...@yahoo.com]

According to Donal K. Fellows <fell...@cs.man.ac.uk>:
:Is there an IMAP client anywhere as well? (CVS says there isn't one in tcllib,

:but maybe someone else has something...?)

Here's what I found from the FAQs...

<URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/part1.html>
81. Title: Managing IMAP
Authors: Dianna Mullet
Kevin Mullet
Publisher: O'Reilly
Publication date: 2000
Nth Printing:
ISBN: 059600012X
Pages: 405
Price: 34.95 US
WWW book information: <URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mimap/ >
Book's examples: <URL: http://examples.oreilly.com/mimap/ >
Errata: <URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mimap/errata/ >

Covers the concepts and practical experiences of IMAP. The book
talks alot about the Cyrus IMAP server, which has Tcl embedded,
and includes an appendix covering Tcl.

<URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/part4.html>
What: Cyrus IMAP Server
Where: <URL: http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/cyrus/ >
Description: IMAP server. This package includes a Tcl administration
client, among other things. Version 1.6 appears to be the last
version to support Tcl.
Updated: 05/1997
Contact: <URL: mailto:cyrus...@andrew.cmu.edu >
<URL: mailto:wa...@cmu.edu > (Matt Wall)

What: Postilion
Where: <URL: http://www.postilion.org/ >
<URL: http://www.postilion.org/postilion-current.tar.gz >
Description: Mail User Agent based on TkRat, with a different user interface.
Supports MIME, virtual folders, PGP, Unix file, MH, POP and IMAP mail
support. Current version is v0.9.3c.
Updated: 04/1999
Contact: <URL: mailto:postilio...@postilion.org >

What: tkgoodstuff
Where: <URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Emarkcrim/tkgoodstuff/ > ???
<URL: ftp://merv.philosophy.lsa.umich.edu/pub/tkgoodstuff.tgz > ???
<URL: ftp://merv.philosophy.lsa.umich.edu/pub/in-progress/tkgoodstuff4.1.tgz > ???
<URL: ftp://merv.philosophy.lsa.umich.edu/pub/in-progress/tkgoodstuff8.0.tgz > ???
<URL: http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/packages-7.6/x11/tkgoodstuff4.1/tkgoodstuff4.1.tar.gz > ???
<URL: http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/packages-7.6/x11/tkgoodstuff4.2.b1-7/tkgoodstuff4.2.b1-7.tar.gz > ???
<URL: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/contrib/libc6/i386/tkgoodstuff-8.0b2-2.i386.html >
Description: A Tk based configurable desktop button panel. Supports
a clock, biff, PPP/SLIP/TERM net link GUI dialer, POP/IMAP
mail fetch scheduler, launcher for www browser, note taker
calendar/alarm support, system load monitor, Webster dictionary client,
calculator, file watcher, tkman launcher,
button bars, stacks, fvwm support, etc.
The 8.0 version Tk 8.x.
Updated: 10/2001
Contact: <URL: mailto:mark...@umich.edu > (Mark Crimmins)

What: TkRat
Where: <URL: http://www.tkrat.org/ >
<URL: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/%7Emaf/ratatosk/ >
<URL: ftp://ftp.md.chalmers.se/pub/tkrat/tkrat-1.1.tar.gz >
<URL: ftp://ftp.md.chalmers.se/pub/tkrat/tkrat-2.0b9.tar.gz >
<URL: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/unix/mail/tkrat/ >
<URL: ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.tar.Z >
Description: Tk based Mail User Agent (MUA). Requires Tcl 7.5/Tk 4.1
and sendmail 8.7 or later. Supports various MIME options.
Supports DSN/ESMTP. Supports English, Swedish and Italian.
Provides supports for saving messages in a database, creating
virtual folders, composing messages, putting the msgs on hold,
understands Unix mailboxes, POP, IMAP, and mh folders.
Reads mh-folders. Watch the web site for new version releases.
Version since 1.1 require Tk 8.
Currently 2.0.3 available, TkRat snap-20011127 is a development
version that reflects the upcoming version 2.1 .
Updated: 12/2001
Contact: <URL: mailto:m...@dtek.chalmers.se > (Martin Forssen)

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[Andreas Kupries]

"Donal K. Fellows" <fell...@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:3C724F4C...@cs.man.ac.uk...

> Darren New wrote:
> > Chad Guebert wrote:
> >> Is there a package similar to the http one that can be used to check an
> >> e-mail server?
> >
> > TclLib has a POP3 client that works fairly well.
>
> Is there an IMAP client anywhere as well? (CVS says there isn't one in
tcllib,
> but maybe someone else has something...?)

We have a tcllib FR waiting for people interested in implementing IMAP.
See
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=425216&group_id=128
83&atid=362883

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Developer @ http://www.ActiveState.com

[Scott Beasley]

"Donal K. Fellows" <fell...@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<3C724F4C...@cs.man.ac.uk>...

> Darren New wrote:
> > Chad Guebert wrote:
> >> Is there a package similar to the http one that can be used to check an
> >> e-mail server?
> >
> > TclLib has a POP3 client that works fairly well.
>
> Is there an IMAP client anywhere as well? (CVS says there isn't one in tcllib,
> but maybe someone else has something...?)
>
> Donal.

The latest version of frenchie the mail grabber I wrote has some imap
code in it. It can a least read the inbox, and delete from it.
Anyone wanting it, send me an email and I'll send it, as I am homeless
on the web now.

scott

[Donal K. Fellows]

"Donal K. Fellows" wrote:
> Is there an IMAP client anywhere as well? (CVS says there isn't one in
> tcllib, but maybe someone else has something...?)

Thanks to everyone who replied. I should mention that I do not want this for
myself, but rather as part of making tcllib useful to a wider range of people.
A generalised mailbox accessing module (that uses whatever mechanism is locally
available) would be of interest to a fair few, I suspect...

Donal.
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