GNUMail.app User's Guide

by Martin Brecher <martin@mb-itconsulting.com>


Contents

About Pantomime
What is Pantomime?
Features


About Pantomime [top of page]

What is Pantomime? [top of page]

From the Pantomime homepage:

Pantomime provides a set of Objective-C classes that model a mail system. Pantomime can be seen as a JavaMail 1.2 clone written in Objective-C.

Pantomime is fully written in Objective-C some some very small parts in C where performance is critical. Pantomime uses a little bit of ELM code.

Pantomime is used in the project GNUMail.app. It has been included in this project since the release 0.7.0pre2 of GNUMail.app.

Pantomime is released under the terms of the LGPL license. Thus, it may also be used by closed source projects.


Features [top of page]

The following list is taken from the Pantomime Homepage:

Pantomime provides the following features:

  • A full MIME encoder and decoder
  • A 'folder view' to local mailboxes (Berkeley Format), POP3 accounts or IMAP mailboxes
  • A powerful API to work on all aspects of Message objects
  • A Sendmail and a SMTP conduit for sending messages
  • and more!