libetpan/README.md

LibEtPan

The purpose of this mail library is to provide a portable, efficient framework for different kinds of mail access: IMAP, SMTP, POP and NNTP.

It provides an API for C language.

Features

• IMAP
• SMTP
• POP
• NNTP
• RFC822/MIME message builder
• RFC822/MIME message parser
• Maildir
• mbox
• MH

Build instructions

Unix

You need to install autoconf, automake and libtool. They can be installed using brew.

$ ./autogen.sh
$ make

How to link with it

$ gcc -c -o sample.o sample.c `libetpan-config --cflags`
$ gcc -o sample sample.o `libetpan-config --libs`

Mac / iOS

• Download Xcode
• Open build-mac/libetpan.xcodeproj
• Choose the correct target "static libetpan" for Mac or "libetpan ios" for iOS.
• Build

Setup a Mac project

• Add libetpan.xcodeproj as sub-project
• Link with libetpan.a

Setup an iOS project

• Add libetpan.xcodeproj as sub-project
• Link with libetpan-ios.a
• Set "Other Linker Flags": -lsasl2

Build on Windows

• See README and Visual Studio Solution in build-windows folder

More information

See http://etpan.org/libetpan.html for more information and examples.