IMAP library

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 18:03:12 UTC, Jens Bauer wrote:
> On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 14:31:56 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>> Am Sun, 12 Apr 2015 17:27:31 +0000
>> schrieb "Jens Bauer" <doctor at who.no>:
>>
>>> I won't say it's impossible, but it would be cumbersome 
>>> processing email on an AVR.
>>
>> There are HTTP servers for AVR(8bit) devices, so it should be 
>> possible.
>
> That's absolutely true, but usually they're very simple.
> You can interface the AVR to an external SRAM or NOR-flash and 
> thus store the entire email (or Web-page) there.
> But imagine that someone sends an email with an attachment - or 
> just writes 50K of babbling. -That might be difficult if you 
> have an AVR with only 8K RAM.
> It's much easier - and perhaps cheaper - to pick a Cortex-M, 
> which has most of the things you need already; you can get 
> ethernet PHYs for less than $2, which interfaces with a 
> Cortex-M.

I am reminded of the constraints from these days:
http://www.abook.ru/dmk/FidoNet/unpublished/fhist.html

My first 'open source' contribution was to a data structure in 
his BBS system a few years later.