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Old 04-15-2008
The iPhone SDK and free software: not a match

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:00:00 GMT
Apple's recently released a software development kit (SDK) for the iPhone, but if you were hoping to port or develop original open source software with it, the news isn't good. Code signing and nondisclosure conditions make free software a no-go.


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IMAPROWL(1)						       IMAProwl User Manual						       IMAPROWL(1)

NAME
imaprowl - IMAP new mail notification utility for iPhone using Prowl Public API SYNOPSIS
imaprowl -c FILENAME [--config FILENAME] [{-q | --daemon}] [{-d | --debug}] imaprowl [{-h | --help} | {-v | --version}] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the imaprowl command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. imaprowl is an IMAP new mail notification utility for iPhone using Prowl Public API Prowl is a service and an App for iPhone's Push Notification service.(APNs) See id2779769 for more about Prowl. IMAProwl is an utility script to notify new mail of IMAP server with Prowl service. It's very useful to push notification of GMail or any other IMAP mail service to your iPhone. This program uses IMAP/IDLE(RFC2177) or IMAP/NOOP to check the new mail on IMAP server and uses Prowl Public API via HTTPS. REQUIREMENTS
Ruby script language version >= 1.9.0 OpenSSL extenstion library for Ruby IMAP server must support SSL/TLS connection. The Prowl service account. It's free, you can register at http://prowl.weks.net/ Your iPhone deveice and the Prowl.app from AppStore. OPTIONS
The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. -c FILENAME, --config FILENAME Configuration file to load. -q, --daemon Enable daemon mode. imaprowl will launch as background process. -d, --debug Enable debug output. -h, --help Show summary of options. -v, --version Show version of program. FILES
${HOME}/.imaprowl.conf The per-user configuration file to control the behaviour of imaprowl. See /usr/share/doc/imaprowl/examples/config.yml for further details. ISSUES
The program is currently limited to only work with the ruby1.9. The upstreams Issue tracker can be found at http://github.com/takuo/IMAProwl/issues. AUTHOR
Takuo Kitame <kitame@debian.org> Wrote this manpage for the Debian system. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Takuo Kitame This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. imaprowl 10/07/2009 IMAPROWL(1)