This is an alpha release of the Net::xAP module package for perl5. This module provides an interface to the protocol family that the IMAP, IMSP, ACAP, and ICAP protocols are a member of. I've included the beginnings of the IMAP. The IMSP, ACAP, and ICAP modules will be following shortly. IMAP = Internet Message Access Protocol IMSP = Internet Message Support Protocol ACAP = Application Configuration Access Protocol ICAP = Internet Calendar Access Protocol WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! Think twice about using this module to modify data on a server. I'm not done shaking out this thing. WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! The method interface is currently in an evaluation phase. Since the module is at an early stage of it's life, I'm not going to try too hard to maintain backward compatability with older alpha versions. I am, however, going to try to make all changes to the method interfaces before it reaches beta release. WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! In case the previous two warnings weren't enough for you - the protocols this package implements are still under development. Expect discontinuities between this package and the protocols as they trek towards standardness. As of the writing this file, IMAP is a 'Proposed Standard' protocol. ACAP and ICAP are both 'Internet Drafts' and are subject to change at any time. IMSP is going to be supplanted by ACAP. ACAP is close to becoming a 'Proposed Standard'. ICAP is not even close to the end of it's draft stage. To build and install the package execute the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install The TODO file has a list of features which aren't present or complete yet. The NEWS file has summary information on the changes from release to release. The BUGS file has information on current implementation bugs/malfeatures. The CREDITS file lists folks who have been particularly helpful/brave. The current version has been developed and tested against 5.004. Please contact me if you use this for anything non-trivial. This is not for permission, it's so I can get some idea of what folks are using the package for other than trivial scripts. Please report any bugs/suggestions to . Copyright (c) 1997-1998 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.