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E-mail client

Can somebody give me an idea as to how to go ahead with writing an e-mail client in Linux ? What do I need to do,i.e, create socket->connect->etc. ?How do i use the SMTP and POP servers ?
What GUI dev. tools are available in Linux?

niggurath

I suggest you to use perl for scripting and if you want a "visual like" layout, use the gdk library with glade.
take a look to perl modules on http://www.cpan.org
and that link:
http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=mail

good luck!

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zmanz

It looks like they have a wxwindows toolkit for perl too.
http://wxperl.sourceforge.net/

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I have Linux 7.1 running and cannot get to install gtk+? The package manager gives dependency problems.I cannot go for individual package installation as one package leads to another dependendy package.What to do?
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