Re: ANNOUNCE: skyrix-core-42 available

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 10:39  pm, Helge Hess wrote:

> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> > > I haven't tried it but some part features seems to/may  be present 
> > > in other packages:
> > >         o mime processing, may be in pantomime
> > Also in the base library additions (needed in NSURL support)
>
> Why do you need MIME for NSURL ?

Well, strictly speaking it was for HTTP rather than MIME, but they are 
so similar that I
implemented it as the GSMime class so it could be used generally too.

I suspect Pantomime didn't re-use it, because it had not been ported to 
MacOS-X

> I think our major advantage is that our stuff is extremly well tested 
> by a huge user base (we guess that at least 50.000 end-users are 
> working with SKYRiX mail clients).
> It does not only process MIME according to the spec, but can also 
> process the broken output of a number of mail clients (say Groupware, 
> say "The Bat!", say Outlook ...).

That sounds useful.