From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-01-08T05:20:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Collecting list of most wanted libraries and apps to port to ruby

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 04:59:44 +0900, PA <petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 02:51:30 +0900, gabriele renzi
> <rff_rff@remove-yahoo.it> wrote:
>>> http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/
>> are'nt rubymail or tmail a good fit ?
> After a quick glance, they seem to only deal with RFC822/2882 and
> MIME. This leaves out POP3, IMAP, SMTP, etc..

Right. Rubymail and tmail are to be layered on top of Net::IMAP
(does this exist yet?), Net::POP3, Net::SMTP, etc. They are
"mail-handling" libraries, not end-to-end-to-end solutions. Ruby
provides the rest "natively."

>>> http://simpleweb.sourceforge.net/
>> I don't understand what simple is.
> Simple is a small, self-contained and embeddable HTTP engine.

Just like WEBrick, which is part of the Ruby distribution.

-austin
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