Short: A new mailer (alpha version) Uploader: sebauer@t-online.de (Sebastian Bauer) Author: hynek@hys.in-berlin.de (Hynek Schlawack), sebauer@t-online.de (Sebastian Bauer) Type: comm/mail Kurz: Ein neuer Mailer (alpha Version) Requires: OS 3.0, MUI 3.8, NList, NListree, BetterString, TextEditor Version: 0.13 Introduction ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Welcome to SimpleMail an email program for your Amiga. The program and the usage is very similar to to YAM's (although YAM is actually much more powerful) but it has (or should get) some features which YAM doesn't offer. Note that this is really only an alpha version, so don't expect too much of it at this stage. The source of SimpleMail is open and released under the GNU Public license. Look at the bottom how to obtain it. Requirements ~~~~~~~~~~~~ SimpleMail requires OS3.0 and MUI 3.8. It also needs some additional MUI Custom Classes: BetterString - http://www.p2p-it.dk/duff/MCC_BetterString.LZX NList - http://www.aphaso.de/download/MCC_NList0_90.lha NListtree - http://www.aphaso.de/download/MCC_NListtree18.8.lha PopPlaceholder - ftp://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/dev/mui/MCC_Popph.lha TextEditor - http://www.p2p-it.dk/duff/MCC_TextEditor.LZX Ensure that you always have the latest versions installed. Changes ~~~~~~~ Version 0.13 (thirteenth alpha) - released on 2001/12/07 - Included a real manual at last. Thanks to David Rey! - SMTP over SSL. - POP3 connections can be made secure with the STLS command now. (RFC 2595) - Primitive ARexx-port. - Support for playing sounds. - Taglines. - Folders holding unread mails are hilighted now. - Localisation. Version 0.12 (twelfth alpha) - released on 2001/11/10 - Fix for the MUI exploit. - Messages can be also encrypted with PGP 2.6.x. - Switching away of columns in the message list is possible now. (save it via "Save Prefs") - Completion of email-addresses improved. - A small menu added to the readwindow that makes it possible to see the raw mail. - Mousewheelsupport of the readwindow is more tolerant now. - The icons/attachments are better identified if you have OS3.9 and DefIcons. You can double-click on an icon to start an action (needs also OS3.9 and DefIcons, e.g. double-click on an archive will start UnArc in the default config of DefIcons). - Printing of messages and text-attachments is possible now. Version 0.11 (eleventh alpha) - released on 2001/09/23 - UIDL POP3 commando support so mails won't be downloaded twice. - Improved startup time. - Bugfixes. Version 0.10 (tenth alpha) - released on 2001/09/10 - Configurable headers for the read window. - Can read message/rfc822 content type properly. - Can decrypt encrypted PGP message using PGP 2.6.x. - Minor other improvements. - Filter has been improved. - Wordwrapping for composed messages. Version 0.9 (ninth alpha) - released on 2001/09/03 - Improved addressbook. - Predefined text phrases. - Periodical mail download. - Requires now the popplaceholder mui custom class. Version 0.8 (eighth alpha) - released on 2001/08/01 - SSL support for POP3 Servers. Needs AmiSSL. - POP3 servers can be individually deactivated and they are ignored. - Menubar in the main window; needs to grow though. - A new read setting, so that smilies can be replaced with images (images created by Richard Kapp). - Groups can be deleted now. Version 0.7 (seventh alpha) - released on 2001/06/29 - The attachment icons weren't displayed on OSes with version below 3.5. - Signatures support added. - Configurable greetings text when writing new mails. - The fonts and colors for reading a mail can be configured. - Hierachical folders and folder images. Version 0.6 (sixth alpha) - released on 2001/06/05 - Improved email-account configuration (multiple SMTP servers). - Can log into pop3 servers before sending emails. - Addressbook is now stored in XML. - Initial filter support. - New folders can be created within the GUI and their settings are stored. - A lot of bugfixes. Version 0.5 (fifth alpha) - released on 2001/02/25 - Configurable mail download selection added. - Supports 8 bit MIME mails (if a SMTP Server don't support them they are encoded on the fly). - Improved the readwindow. Now used extensivly the SimpleHTML engine. - Button images are cached now. - Support of the new SimpleMail user gallery. Version 0.4 (fourth alpha) - released on 2001/02/25 - Multiple POP3 servers. - Images for replied/forwarded mails. - Faster QP/base64 routines. - Some images has been redrawn. - Fixed problems with special chars in real names. - Many other bug fixes. Version 0.3 (third alpha) - released on 2001/02/05 - Added a forward button. - Main window has two different views, which are changeable within the main window. - Improved the compose window (got some images). - "To" button in the addressbook works now correctly. - Group mails (mails with multiple recipients), mails with attachments, important mails can now easily identified. - Added a small context menu for the mailtreelist, mails can now be marked and hold. - Added the possibility to use your IP-addresss as you domain in the HELO/EHLO dialog. (no X-Authentification-Warning headers anymore). - Added smtp-auth according to rfc2554. - It is now possible to specify which port you would like to use on the servers instead of 25 and 110. - Other smaller improvements and bug fixes. Version 0.2 (second alpha) - released on 2001/01/14 - Buttons have now images. - Now can display HTML mails (uses SimpleHTML engine). - Indexfiles for folders. - Mails can have differnt statuses (new,read,waitsend,sent). - Support of mailthreads. - Addressbook is now more complete. - Bugfixes and smaller enhancements. Version 0.1 (first alpha) - released on 2000/12/24 - Initial alpha. Contact ~~~~~~~ More information about the SimpleMail project can be found at http://simplemail.sf.net/ or http://www.simplemail.de.vu/ Developers might take look at http://sf.net/projects/simplemail/ if they want to participate to the project. Here they can submit patches, subscribe to the mailing lists or get access to the cvs. There are also two mailing lists for SimpleMail. One for the developers and one for the user. http://lists.sf.net/lists/listinfo/simplemail-dev/ http://www.freelists.org/list/simplemail-usr SimpleMail is (originally) developed by Hynek Schlawack http://hynek.in-berlin.de/ Sebastian Bauer http://home.t-online.de/home/sebauer/ You can also contact them if you have any questions regarding SimpleMail. All the images including the icons have been created by Martin Merz The Smilies images has been created by Richard Kapp __ / / __ / / Only Amiga makes it possible... \ \/ / \__/ Amiga is a trademark from Amiga Inc.