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What is VMime?
VMime is a powerful C++ class library for parsing, generating, or editing Internet RFC-[2]822 and MIME messages. VMime is designed to provide a fast and an easy way to manipulate Internet mail messages.
Moreover, since release 0.3.0, VMime offers a set of components to connect to messaging stores using protocols like POP3 or IMAP, and to use mail transport services like SMTP: this is called the messaging module.
With VMime, you get a all-in-one solution to build a complete mail client.
VMime's advantages:
- create/parse/modify RFC-[2]822, multipart (MIME) and MHTML messages (with embedded objects)
- strict RFC-compliance
- platform-independant code: only standard C++ and STL code is used
- very modular, easy-to-use
- it's free software!
This documentation is under construction, thus it is not complete. If you have any question about using VMime, you can try on the VMime forums, located on the official project page (hosted by Sourceforge).
Copyright and license
VMime is Free Software. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL):
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Vincent Richard
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
This documentation in released under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL):
Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Vincent Richard
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
Free Documentation License".
Examples of program code in this documentation are released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).