Re: ANN: Etiquette: a protocol construction tool

Seconded, but replace POP with IMAP. I'd think writing IMAP would be easier
anyway.
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Brian Mastenbrook
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> From: Peter Seibel <[email protected]>
> Date: 16 Sep 2003 13:00:46 -0700
> To: Eugene Zaikonnikov <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Clump] ANN: Etiquette: a protocol construction tool
> 
> Eugene Zaikonnikov <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> * "Daniel" == Daniel Barlow <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> Daniel>  I do have half a Perl transliteration of the sexp-ipc thing I
>> Daniel>  was hacking last weekend: I'm trying to decide on a good
>> Daniel>  sample app to hack remote control into before I do a wider
>> Daniel>  release - tentatively thinking that a wrapper for the mpg123
>> Daniel>  (or actually 321) remote control interface would be neat.
>> 
>> Speaking of sample apps: if anyone can think of an interesting (and/or
>> desirable) network application for me to implement with Etiquette, I
>> am all ears. At the moment, writing an MTA is under consideration,
>> however, the amount of work left to properly implement the
>> functionality not directly related to networking is somewhat scary.
> 
> So how about this--you write a POP3 library that does the protocol but
> calls specified but unimplemented (by you) generic functions with the
> results. Then anyone who wants to talk to a POP3 server in order to
> write an MTA or a spam filter (a la POPFile) has a head start on the
> part that Ettiquette is good for.
> 
> -Peter
> 
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