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On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Graham Barr wrote:

>
> As there were not any real objections I am going to change the name of
> Mail::RFC822 to be Mail::Internet in the hope that it would be more
> understandable/meaningful to people.

This should either be called Mail::Internet, or Mail::Unix. What are the
chances of making it useful from other OS's, like OS/2, VMS, and Windows
NT?

> Regards,
> Graham.
>
> --
> Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
> Texas Instruments Ltd.

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Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)

>I think it should be Mail::Internet.

Just like Socket::PF_Internet :-)

--tom

On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Tom Christiansen wrote:

> >I think it should be Mail::Internet.
>
> Just like Socket::PF_Internet :-)

That reminds be. You posted some simple socket client and server packages
recently. How would you feel about having those wrapped into
Socket::Client and Socket::Server?

Or does anyone else have any better modules for these slots?

> --tom

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Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)

On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Kenneth Albanowski wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>
> > >I think it should be Mail::Internet.
> >
> > Just like Socket::PF_Internet :-)
>
> That reminds be. You posted some simple socket client and server packages
> recently. How would you feel about having those wrapped into
> Socket::Client and Socket::Server?

Er, nevermind. Those were just pieces of sample code, not modules.

> Or does anyone else have any better modules for these slots?

This question is still open.

> > --tom
>
> --
> Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)

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Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)

Kenneth Albanowski writes:
> This should either be called Mail::Internet, or Mail::Unix. What are the
> chances of making it useful from other OS's, like OS/2, VMS, and Windows
> NT?
>

I know that elm and pine work under OS/2, so I see no obstacle. My
machine has sendmail and sendmail.cf, at least.

Ilya

KA> This should either be called Mail::Internet, or Mail::Unix. What are the
KA> chances of making it useful from other OS's, like OS/2, VMS, and Windows
KA> NT?

Quite high, I'd expect. RFC822 mail turns up on a lot more OS's than
UNIX. A POP3 client should be easy, so it's easy to get the
headers. Once you've got them, Graham' module becomes useful.

I think it should be Mail::Internet.

P.