Re: Beast for IMAP

From: Kenneth Porter (shiva_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-08-29 21:19:59

--On Saturday, August 29, 2020 11:27 AM +0300 Zhivko Vasilev via 
Boost-users <boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> And IMAP complexity by itself is a "Beast" compared with SMTP.
>
> Not from boost libraries, but have you look at these libraries if you need
> IMAP support.
> https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan
> https://github.com/MailCore/mailcore2
>
> As far as I know, most of the "modern" email apps which haven't used
> proprietary code are based on these libraries.

Thanks. I'd seen those and also this one:

https://www.vmime.org/

I'm coming from using Mulberry and Thunderbird, which have their own IMAP 
implementation, but neither of those look easy to extract as standalone 
libraries.

In addition to the complexity of IMAP, there's the need for authentication 
and encryption support, so there's a stack of additional libraries like 
GnuTLS, cyrus-sasl, and openssl needed.

Some of these are hard to build on Windows. Fortunately the new Windows 
Linux Subsystem allows one to run Linux-based GUI programs in a VM and 
display on the Windows desktop. So I may go that route.