RE: [Pan-users] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: ANN: Pan0.108"Mama's Little Joyboy Loves Lobsters, Lobsters"

[Travis]

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Subject: [Pan-users] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: ANN: Pan0.108"Mama's
Little Joyboy Loves Lobsters, Lobsters"

> "Travis" <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sun, 13
> Aug 2006 17:59:02 -0700: 
> 
> Artur Jackacy wrote...
>>> [Pan on MSWormOS is] a long and arduous task. Actually, bulding
>>> Gmime is; Pan is a piece of cake after that.
>> 
>> What is a "Gmime"?
> 
> MIME is short for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.
> MIME is defined in a set of standards track RFCs (Request For
> Comments, the way the documents governing Internet standards
> start), originally for email, but the same base has since
> been used in a variety of different situations (including the
> web, and even file associations on Unix/Linux systems) to
> define document type categorization.
> 
> The "g" in gmime is either GNU (as in GNU Public License, the
> GPL) or GTK/Gnome, I'm not sure which (and at least the home
> page front page doesn't seem to say either). In any case,
> it's a GPL based MIME message handling library. More
> information, including a list of the MIME related RFCs, is
> available at the gmime home page on sourceforge:
> http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/
> 
> The gmime libraries are a common dependency on Linux and will
> often already be installed and in use for something (say a
> mail app) besides pan.  Even where they aren't, it's normally
> a simple matter of installing them from your distribution's
> packages tree, one often taken care of automatically when one
> goes to install pan.  Of course, the MS platforms are an
> entirely different ball game.

My OS is XP Home but you knew that?  Do I need to know how to build
Gmime in order to get the new Pan to work for me?

I'm thinking this is getting to be too much for me.

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Travis in Shoreline Washington