The Unweb Project

Unweb is a set of Perl modules designed to 1) parse web-based services and 2) optionally serve their content using standard well-established protocols. This allows standard clients to access services which would otherwise be unavailable.

Unweb is hasn't been developed actively and is currently mostly an idea. Please see the links near the end of this page for similar programs.

Unweb::Mail

Web-based e-mail suddenly became several times more useful. Unweb's ultimate goal is to make any service on Emailaddresses.com accessible through one of the server modules.

Parser modules:

• Unweb::Mail::Dummy - test module, always returns same messages
• Unweb::Mail::Yahoo - in development
• Unweb::Mail::Excite - planned
• Unweb::Mail::MBOX - planned, for Unix mbox files
• Unweb::Mail::Altavista - planned
• Unweb::Mail::Snap mail - planned
• Unweb::Mail::Mailcity / Lycos - planned
• Unweb::Mail::Go - planned
• Unweb::Mail::Xoom - planned

Server modules:

• Unweb::Mail::POPServer - functional, serves POP3 for receiving
• Unweb::Mail::SMTPServer - planned, for sending
• Unweb::Mail::IMAPServer - planned, but low priority

Other parsers not part of Unweb:

• FetchYahoo can parse Yahoo webmail
• OmniBiff can parse MBOX (UNIX) mail, Hotmail, Yahoo!, Excite, My-Deja, BusinessWeekMail Go, Alta-Vista, and Visto. However OmniBiff is implemented in Java, requiring the parsers to be reimplemented in Perl for use in Unweb.
• Express Mail@Mate claims it can check mail from Microsoft Exchange, Outlook w/ Exchange server, Novell Group Wise, and Yahoo mail.

Unweb::Forum

For parsing web-based forums. Presently no work has been done in this area.

Parser modules:

• Unweb::Forum::Ezboard - planned
• Unweb::Forum::Network54 - planned
• Unweb::Forum::PhpBB - planned
• Unweb::Forum::SourceForge - planned

Server modules:

• Unweb::Forum::NNTPServer - planned, for Netnews/Usenet