e-mail-x

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[98-11-19]

• Just to let you know; I did finally resume e-mail-x development. I'm currently working on rewriting the message parsing code. It feels kinda strange to do C++ programming again, after concentrating on Java for a while... I certainly got used to that garbage collector pretty fast! :)

[98-11-17]

• Compiler problem solved! I hadn't got any tips on how I might fix it, so I eventually went desperate enough to explicitly link libg++ - and it worked. I have no idea why it's not linked automatically, but now it finally works. Hopefully, e-mail-x development will resume soon (perhaps later today).

[98-10-25]

• I started poking around the source code again today, so it looks like I'm actually going to get something done. Unfortunately, a newer version of g++ I'm using (after switching to Debian 2.0) has problems with exceptions, or rather, I've got problems getting it to handle them at all. So I expect that to delay the work a bit, since I can't get the current code base to even compile until I sort this out.

[98-10-21]

• Removed the old pages and replaced them with this one - it should now be browsable with any browser.
• Also, about e-mail-x development; I'm afraid it's been a while since I've worked on e-mail-x, but there's a one-week holiday coming up in Sweden soon, and I hope to get something done during that time. Unfortunately, most of my time seems to go to Java prograaming these days :)

What is e-mail-x anyway?

e-mail-x is an X-based E-Mail user agent for Linux/Unix that I've been working on. I'm afraid I haven't released it yet, but hopefully it won't be too long till I'll be able to release a first beta version.

The X interface is written using Qt - an object oriented C++ GUI library for Unix/X11 and Windoze (no I'm never going to write a Windows version unless I've got a gun pointed to my head :). Check out Troll Tech for more information about Qt.

Features

Obviously there are none yet, since it hasn't been released yet. But POP3 (Post Office Protocol) is supported, aswell as non-MIME messages (RFC-822).

Following are some of the features I've got planned for the future (including the ones previously mentioned):

• POP3 support
• POP3 secure sessions (rarely used as far as I can tell)
• IMAP support
• SMTP support
• Filters
• Built-in leight-weight scripting language for more advanced filtering
• MIME support
• Address books
• PGP encryption/decryption/signing/verifying
• HTML support (basic - no fancy stuff that is used on the net for absolutely nothing but unneccessary bandwidth wasting bloat)

Screenshots

So far, the only screenshot I've seen fit to make available is the one of the message editor/viewer (depicting the message viewer displaying an error message, in lack of anything better...).

Will it be free?

Yes. I don't know which license I'll use yet, but you definately won't have to pay for it. The source code will be made available under the GPL or something similar.

Any estimated release date?

No. I don't know how much time I'll be able to spend on it in the near future, and further more, much of the code needs to be rewritten (some of it is totally worthless). In fact, I haven't ruled out the possibility of doing a complete rewrite.

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