Re: [ANN] E-Man LGPL'd and freely available to the ST Community

On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 21:07:29 +1100,
Michael Lucas-Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I don't think this product needs much introduction.

it does, if you're no visual age user. at least,
i had not heard from it :-)

>
> I'll try to support E-Man as much as I can, so send me your queries.

any recommendations on how to port it to dolphin?

thanks,
s.

Stefan Schmiedl wrote:

> On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 21:07:29 +1100,
> Michael Lucas-Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>>I don't think this product needs much introduction.
>>

>
> it does, if you're no visual age user. at least,
> i had not heard from it :-)
>

My Mistake, an introduction below:

  E-Man is VisualAge Smalltalk component for sending Email's from
Smalltalk. The features speak better than anything I can write in this
email.

It supports the following features:

What you would expect from Smalltalk

     * 100% Smalltalk - Nothing external from the image. You see how
everything is done and it is done in Smalltalk.
     * Full source code included.
     * LGPL and FDL License.
     * Easily extensible.
     * Custom parts for the Composition editor (GUI programming!)

Effecient

     * Optionally saves message contents to disk to reduce image size
and handle many messages.
     * Buffered I/O on Internet communications to handle large files
very quickly.
     * Single messages and batches of messages for both sending and
receiving Email.

Complete Functionality

     * Handles multiple mailboxes as easy as one.
     * Attach 1 or more files to any Email message.
     * Attach 1 or more messages to any Email message (forwarding).
     * Multi-part MIME 1.0 support.
     * Supports all standard encoding algorithms; including base64 and
quoted-printable text.
     * All file types supported for attachments.

Technical Details

     * Complete inquiry / update access to all headers on the message.
Even add your own special headers (X-).
     * Multiple 'To', 'CC' and 'BCC' recipients per message.
     * EMan requires no runtime files
     * Audit trail for debugging and learning general information about
transmissions

Ease of use

     * Installable in minutes
     * Send your first message from a workspace in minutes after installing
     * Check your mail and retrieve it right from your workspace.


>
>>I'll try to support E-Man as much as I can, so send me your queries.
>>
>
> any recommendations on how to port it to dolphin?
>


You should only need to replicate the VA network streaming layer. It's
fairly simple. You can knock off the visual components completely -
since that's just VAST tastiness any way.

If you would like a filed out version instead of an ENVY .DAT file
instead then I can arrange that.