I tried contacting Jun Mukai at the email address given in the package but I haven't heard a reply. Just to get this out of the way I've put my darcs repository with the changes I've made up on my website. It should build and install with: darcs get http://www.dicta.org.uk/website/website/haskellnet cabal configure cabal build cabal install I've added some examples of using smtp, pop3 and imap to the examples directory. They seem to work against the mail servers that I have access to. I've also removed some modules from haskellnet which are now covered elswhere in hackage: eg. http, browser, json I'll put in a request to get a username on hackage so I can upload it-- unless anyone has any objections. -Rob On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Neil Mitchell wrote:

Hi

Email the original author, if you can. Ideally work with them to upload a working version to hackage. If they're not interested hopefully they'll make you the new maintainer. If you can't contact them, just upload a new version anyway - as long as it's done for the benefit of the community and not with malicious intent, everyone is happy.

And please do make sure you upload something working, I imagine this will be very useful to lots of people!

Thanks for your efforts

Neil

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Robert Wills wrote:

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Hello,

Yesterday I found myself wanting to clear out a spam-ridden pop account without downloading all the messages. Rather than just using Python's poplib, I thought I might look for a haskell solution and came across Haskellnet: http://darcs.haskell.org/SoC/haskellnet/

I ended up spending much of the afternoon getting it to compile and much of last night trying to get the pop library to actually work (the 'strip' method produced exceptions).  It was a good learning experience (this was helpful: http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/no-more-exceptions-debugging-haskell...).

I'm writing here because I'm wondering whether it would be worthwhile putting it up on hackage? From searching this list, there seem to have been a few times when people have stumbled across it but got frustrated when it didn't compile.  If so, what's the protocol? Is the original author, Jun Mukai, still around?

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