Please read NEWS, and possibly TODO, if you've written code for a previous version of Net::xAP. Significant changes have been made since the previous release. Your code will probably break on this version!!! The good news is that this version is a signficant improvement over the previous version. This is an alpha release of the Net::xAP module package for perl5. This module provides an interface to the protocol family represented by IMAP, IMSP, ACAP, and ICAP. A usable IMAP module is also provide. As a side note, the following list of acronym expansions is in the same priority order I expect to follow for the development of Net::xAP. IMAP = Internet Message Access Protocol ACAP = Application Configuration Access Protocol IMSP = Internet Message Support Protocol ICAP = Internet Calendar Access Protocol WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! Think twice about using this module to modify data on a server. I'm not done beating on it. WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! The method interface is currently in an evaluation phase. Since the module is at an early stage of its life, I'm not going to try too hard to maintain backward compatability with older alpha versions. I am, however, going to try to make all changes to the method interfaces before it reaches beta release. Also note that the code is still crufty in several conspicuous places, but it's moving in the right direction. WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! In case the previous two warnings weren't enough for you - some of the protocols this package implements are still under development. Expect discontinuities between this package and the protocols as they trek towards standardosity. As of the writing of this file, IMAP and ACAP are 'Proposed Standard' protocols, so they shouldn't present any significant problems. ICAP is an 'Internet Draft' and is subject to change at any time, possibly even death. IMSP never quite made it to an RFC, and is being supplanted by ACAP. To build and install the package execute the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test Note: The regression currently requires UW-imapd, and expects to find it in /usr/sbin. Edit t/*_imap*.t if it's located elsewhere. make install Net::xAP requires the MIME::Base64 and Digest-MD5 modules. The TODO file has a list of features that either aren't present or aren't complete. The NEWS file has summary information on the changes from release to release. The BUGS file has information on current implementation bugs/malfeatures. The CREDITS file lists folks who have been particularly helpful/brave. This release was developed and tested using 5.005_03. Please contact me if you use this for anything non-trivial. This is not for permission, it's so I can get some idea of what folks are using the package for other than trivial scripts. Please report any bugs/suggestions to . Copyright (c) 1997-1999 Kevin Johnson . All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.