Hi, I'm checking around here to see if anybody is working on any of these things, or alternatively, if there is any interest. This list reflects some of the things that I think we are missing in Haskell: Item Use ------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- E-Mail header, MIME codec Composing or parsing e-mail messages Base64 encode/decode Render binary strings in ASCII Required to do MIME MD5, SHA algorithms Generate unique hashes for strings, files (n)curses interface Full-screen text interfaces [ng]dbm interface Persistent hash storage mimetypes, mailcap support Discover MIME types of files and appropriate apps to use to handle files Maildir, mbox, MH, IMAP client Access e-mail storage systems support FTP, NNTP, SMTP client support Connect to appropriate servers IPv6 Support Obvious :-) ------------------ I have code for the following already: ------------------ Logging infrastructure Flexible logging of messages Syslog support Log to syslog daemon Various string utils (see MissingH for that stuff) And I'm willing to help on the rest, but I don't want to be duplicating effort of anyone else. Thanks, John -- John Goerzen Author, Foundations of Python Network Programming http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593715