[OSS400] Re: *** ADMIN: Spam (Open Source Green Screen Email)

I have simple examples of both an SMTP client and a POP client written in CL. 
The enabling technology is the 'freeware' TCP/IP Socket Client APIs available 
from IBM's Custom Technology Center. Details at:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?H197410A1
  or
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/service/ctc/details/a2_sapi.htm

With a basic exception, the example clients certainly aren't valuable except as 
simple demos.

But with some effort to create useful ones rather than prototype demos using 
'fake' APIs, I'd think that real SMTP and POP clients available via 
green-screen could be very valuable. At the very least, as open source, they'd 
provide examples of sockets programming against common TCP/IP applications that 
would be easily understandable because so many are familiar with what SMTP and 
POP do.

Tom Liotta


midrange-l-request@midrange.com wrote:

>From: Scott Klement
>
>I've written a few e-mail clients... one of which was even for the AS/400.
>Unfortunately, the source doesn't belong to me, and I can't post it.
>
>However, I was wondering:  Is this something that people could really use?
>I mean, most people are very adamant about using graphical e-mail readers
>like Outlook, etc.  Would it really be that useful to write a green screen
>app?
>

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