Re: Sv: Emacs HTTP libraries [was: Re: How to contribute new package to GNU ELPA?]

[Daniel Brooks]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:08:20 +0200, Arthur Miller 
>>>>>> <arthur.miller@live.com> said:
>     Arthur> What about other protocols it supports, is that of interest to 
> have in
>     Arthur> Emacs?
>
>     Arthur> Here seems to be a list of supported ones:
>
>     Arthur> https://everything.curl.dev/protocols/curl
>
> Iʼm curious, what does 'support' mean in this case? I mean, SMTP or
> IMAP is just TCP (perhaps with TLS). You still need the emacs client
> code to actually issue SMTP or IMAP commands and interpret them.

Give this a whirl, with appropriate subtitutions:

    curl "imap://<username>:<password>@<your imap server>/INBOX;UID=<NNNN>"

It’s a little bit odd, but I guess someone was feeling completionist
that day.

db48x