What is MultiMAIL?
MultiMAIL is an offline mail reader for unix systems. It was inspired by
those nice offline mail readers for D*S.
It supports the BlueWave
offline mail format (qwk support under construction). It has a full
screen, color user interface, built with the ncurses library. The
program is written by
Kolossváry
Tamás and
Tóth István.
(Fidonet: 2:371/38 Name:stoty)
You can get MultiMAIL by anonymous ftp from:
ftp.vma.bme.hu/pub/linux/mmail/mmail.0.1.src+bin.tar.gz
Requirements
- Linux (intel) (untested on other platforms yet)
- Ncurses (at least 1.9.3, older versions have problems with colors)
- Gcc 2.7.0
- Make
- Sed
- fromdos/todos (a.out binary included)
Features
- auto-decompressing of compressed bluewave packets with external compress program
- user friendly menus to select packet, area, letter, etc.
- save whole area or one letter in a text file
- enter mail in any area (using external editor)
- insert tagline from a tagline file
- reply mail with quote
- write netmail
- netmail addresbook
Installation procedure
Type make at the command prompt to compile MultiMAIL. For those of you
without gcc-2.7.0, an a.out binary is also provided. Just cp mm.aout
mm
When the executable 'mm' is built, type:
make install_dirs, to create the necessery directories and the
configuration file in your homedir.
These directories are:
- ~/mmail to store the tagline file (see notes below), netmail
addressbook, etc...
- ~/mmail/bwdown to store the bluewave packets as they came from the bbs
- ~/mmail/bwup to store the reply packet(s) which you have to upload to the bbs
- ~/mmail/bwsave is the default directory to save letters
- ~/.mmailrc the configuratin file
Now copy a bluewave packet to the ~/mmail/bwdown directory, type
./mm (at the directory where you decompressed the MultiMAIL archive)
and enjoy!
If you'd like to use MultiMAIL further, become root and type make install
which installs the executable.
If you plan to use taglines, create a file in the mmail directory,
named taglines. Each line of this file will be a tagline, which can be
selected when you entered a message. You can edit the configuration file
~/.mmailrc to change the default settings of MultiMAIL. The format is
described in the file.
Note that MultiMAIL uses the /tmp directory too for storing temporary files.
Plans for the future:
- new features (search, filter by sender/topic, offline configuration,
etc..)
- support for the QWK format
- support for unix mail
- support for usenet
- automatic character translation (lat-1, lat-2, pc charset)
- save letters in bluewave packet format or in the formats above
- easy use of PGP, UUdecode, etc...
- X interface
and we accept any good ideas ...