IMAP library

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 12 April 2015 at 17:27:32 UTC, Jens Bauer wrote:

> I won't say it's impossible, but it would be cumbersome 
> processing email on an AVR.

I do miss the days of having to work within very real hardware 
constraints to achieve something only just about achievable.  But 
part of the joy goes out of it when you know that the constraint 
is artifical.

> But there are Arduino using ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers too.

Yes - I meant this in a loose, everyday, form of speaking.

> I can mention a couple of microcontrollers that have ethernet 
> support (eg. they need a PHY of your choice and for instance a 
> HanRun ethernet connector) - Examples are STM32F4xx from 
> ST-Microelectronics and 
> LPC1758/LPC1768/LPC1769/LPC177x/LPC178x/LPC43xx from NXP.
> There are others from other vendors as well, but those above 
> are quite popular and very easy to find as stand-alone chips or 
> small evaluation boards.

Tku - I have one of these modules lying around, but have not had 
time to hook it up yet and don't remember which one.  We may not 
have been delivered the world of the Jetsons, but I am still 
occasionally astonished that what was only imagination in 
childhood is now almost too ordinary to be worth remarking on 
today.

One aspect of embedded stuff I haven't seen people comment on is 
that even if D is not yet there for running for regular use on 
the controller, you still need to talk to it from the host or 
control unit, and I guess D can be quite useful there.  Also for 
processing logs, and so on.

> I find it particularly interesting to be able to send an email 
> to a device, which can then process and do some simple things 
> (eg. turn stuff on/off, send back the room temparature, etc.) - 
> also a mail-robot would be quite interesting as a stand-alone 
> "thing".

Yes - makes sense.  (Reminded of an article on the supposed spam 
epidemic from networked 'toasters').  Email might not be the best 
protocol for this, but it is easy.


> It'll be ready when it's ready. When building in small steps, 
> the job often gets easier.
>
> May you be successful with ease!

Thank you!  And v interesting what you are doing on the 
microcontroller side, too - and I hope that goes well.


Laeeth