Subject: ANNOUNCE: MailFolder-0.04 uploaded to CPAN
From: [email-masked] (Kevin Johnson)
Date: 22 Jan 1997 15:51:27 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules

The newest version (0.04) of the Mail::Folder module has been posted to
CPAN under my author id (KJOHNSON) and name (Kevin_Johnson).

This module 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.

This code is still in alpha release.  Think twice about using it to
modify folders that you consider important (at the very least make
backup copies :-).  Also, the interface is currently in an evaluation
phase.  The interface will probably change in non-backwards-compatible
ways.

I'm currently using perl 5.003_22 or newer.  The current version has
been tested against 5.003_22.  I don't know whether it will work on
5.002 or not.  I'll apply bug fixes against for 5.002, but you'll have
to meet me halfway.

I am keenly interested in feedback from folks doing stuff with the
package.

Here are some of the more notable new features and unmalfeatures added
since the last release:
	+ Added the beginnings of a maildir (ala qmail) folder interface.
	+ Mbox interface now splits the folder into individual temp files.
	  This helps simplify the code and decrease the bugs until I decide
	  on a better way to do it.
	+ Rearranged the regression test directory.
	+ Added some basic debug capabilities.
	+ Various bug fixes and optimizations.

Refer to the provided README file for additional information.

Please report any bugs/suggestions to <[email-masked]>.

Copyright (c) 1997 Kevin Johnson <[email-masked]>

All rights reserved.  This program is free software; you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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