Path: usenet.cise.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!cyclic.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!192.108.254.3!news.teleport.com!not-for-mail From: kjj@primenet.com (Kevin Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules Subject: ANNOUNCE: MailFolder-0.06 Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.modules Date: 7 Apr 1997 02:56:23 GMT Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Lines: 52 Sender: news-merlyn@gadget.cscaper.com Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) Message-ID: <5i9non$s24$1@nadine.teleport.com> Reply-To: kjj@primenet.com NNTP-Posting-Host: gadget.cscaper.com Keywords: perl email X-Disclaimer: The "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. Xref: usenet.cise.ufl.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:145 comp.lang.perl.modules:2282 The newest version (0.06) of the Mail::Folder module has been posted to CPAN under my author id (KJOHNSON) and name (Kevin_Johnson). .... perl's response to the Law of Software Envelopment ... Mail::Folder provides a perl module interface to email folders that is independent from the physical folders. The actual work on folders is done with folder interface modules lying 'beneath' the Mail::Folder interface. The module is still in alpha release. Think twice about using it to modify folders that you consider important (at the very least make backup copies :-). That being said, I'll mention that I use it as the sole interface to my email at home. The method interface is currently in an evaluation phase. Before it goes to beta, I expect to make method interface changes that won't be backwards compatible. The current version was developed and tested against 5.003_97 or newer. Older versions won't work. Here are some of the more notable new features and unmalfeatures added since the last release: + Had to nuke support for flock locking temporarily - sorry. + No longer needs File::BasicFlock (a replacement is in the works). + DotLocking can optionally be made NFS-safe. + Fixed some race conditions with folder locking. + Various bug fixes, cleanups, and optimizations. ######################################################################## NOTE: The next release will probably have several incompatible :NOTE NOTE: interface changes. :NOTE ######################################################################## Refer to the provided README file for additional information. I am keenly interested in feedback from folks doing interesting stuff with the package. Please report any bugs/suggestions to . Copyright (c) 1996-1997 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. -- thx, kjj@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~kjj/ .