Open Source Cocoa/Cocoa-Touch POP3/SMTP library?

MessageFramework on CocoaDev lists various possibilities,

“Sending emails from Cocoa” also lists several frameworks, including Pantomime, MailCore and EdMessage (the site for this seems to be down, but there is a mirror on github, which has also been modified to compile for 10.4, as well as 10.5 – so should work on the iPhone)

Example code using Pantomime (from the above blog-post):

CWMessage *message = [[CWMessage alloc] init];

CWInternetAddress *address;

address = [[CWInternetAddress alloc] initWithString:@"[email protected]"];
[message setFrom:address];
[address release];

address = [[CWInternetAddress alloc] initWithString:@"[email protected]"];
[address setType:PantomimeToRecipient];
[message addRecipient:address];
[address release];

[message setSubject:@"test"];

[message setContentType: @"text/plain"];
[message setContentTransferEncoding: PantomimeEncodingNone];
[message setCharset: @"us-ascii"];

[message setContent: [@"This is a simple content." dataUsingEncoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding]];

smtp = [[CWSMTP alloc] initWithName:@"smtp.gmail.com" port:465];
[smtp setDelegate: self];
[smtp setMessage: message];
[message release];

ssl = YES;
mechanism = @"PLAIN";

[smtp connectInBackgroundAndNotify];

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