LibEtPan

The purpose of this mail library is to provide a portable, efficient framework for different kinds of mail access: IMAP, SMTP, POP and NNTP.

It provides an API for C language.

Features

• IMAP
• SMTP
• POP
• NNTP
• RFC822/MIME message builder
• RFC822/MIME message parser
• Maildir
• mbox
• MH

Build instructions

Unix

You need to install autoconf, automake and libtool. They can be installed using brew.

$ ./autogen.sh
$ make

You can use flag --with-poll for using poll() instead of select() for checking connection status

How to link with it

$ gcc -c -o sample.o sample.c `libetpan-config --cflags`
$ gcc -o sample sample.o `libetpan-config --libs`

Mac / iOS

• Download Xcode
• Open build-mac/libetpan.xcodeproj
• Choose the correct target "static libetpan" for Mac or "libetpan ios" for iOS.
• Build

Setup a Mac project

• Add libetpan.xcodeproj as sub-project
• Link with libetpan.a

Setup an iOS project

• Add libetpan.xcodeproj as sub-project
• Link with libetpan-ios.a
• Set "Other Linker Flags": -lsasl2

Build on Windows

• See README and Visual Studio Solution in build-windows folder

Build on Android

You need to install autoconf, automake and libtool. They can be installed using brew.

$ ./autogen.sh
$ make

• cd libetpan/build-android

$ export ANDROID_NDK=/Users/xxx/Library/Android/sdk/ndk/21.3.6528147 #Use ndk 21
$ ./build.sh

• cd libetpan/build-android/dependencies/openssl

$ export ANDROID_NDK=/Users/xxx/Library/Android/sdk/ndk/21.3.6528147 #Use ndk 21
$ ./build.sh

• cd libetpan/build-android/dependencies

$ ./download-cyrus-sasl.sh

• cd libetpan/build-android/dependencies/cyrus-sasl

$ export ANDROID_NDK=/Users/xxx/Library/Android/sdk/ndk/17.2.4988734 #Use ndk 17
$ ./build.sh

• cd libetpan/build-android

$ export ANDROID_NDK=/Users/xxx/Library/Android/sdk/ndk/21.3.6528147 #Use ndk 21
$ ./build.sh

More information

See http://etpan.org/libetpan.html for more information and examples.