A new release of the `Mahogany' e-Mail and News client has been made. ===================================================================== Source and binaries for a variety of Linux and Unix systems as well as binaries for Win32 are available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3100 You can also get to the download page starting from http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/ NB: My sincere excuses to all people who have written me asking for Win32 binaries and to whom I couldn't reply because there were so many of them. For personal reasons I couldn't make the Win32 version as soon as I hoped to. In this message: 1. Announcing Mahogany Version 0.62 2. Changes Against the Previous Release Announcing Mahogany Version 0.62 ===================================================================== Mahogany is an OpenSource(TM) cross-platform mail and news client. It is available for X11/Unix and MS Windows platforms, supporting a wide range of protocols and standards, including POP3, IMAP4 and full MIME support as well as secure communications via SSL. Mahogany can be extended far beyond its original functionality using its built-in Python interpreter and/or its loadable modules (plug-ins). Mahogany's wealth of features and ease of use make it one of the most powerful clients available, providing a consistent and intuitive interface across all supported platforms and an ideal GUI email client for advanced and novice users alike. Mahogany includes an extendable address book system supporting hierarchical organisation of entries, group aliases, searching the database and easy editing, with support for other programs' address database formats. Currently Mahogany's native format, (X)Emacs' BBDB address books and PalmOS address books are supported. LDAP support is planned for future versions. Mahogany is written using the OpenSource wxWindows application framework for GUI C++ applications, building on the GTK+ toolkit on Unix and native Win32 API under Windows and imap-2000 (c-client) library developed by University of Washington for mail folder access. Mahogany is constantly being tested on a variety of Linux systems, Solaris-sparc and MS Windows. It should compile and work on any modern Unix platform. Changes Since Release 0.60 ===================================================================== Key changes are: - fixes to several fatal crashes with IMAP servers - significant speed up of some operations (although more optimizations are to come) - availability of Win32 version - Mahogany is now dual licensed under its Artistic License and GPL New features: - support for marking message as flagged/important - "Extract all addresses from message" command - possibility to import all MBOX folders under the given directory - possibility to set a hard limit for number of messages retrieved from a (remote) folder Improvements: - folders in the tree can now be rearranged, system folders are at top by default - messages can now be sorted by status and by size as well - title and status bar of folder view are customizable strings which can include information about the number of new/unread/flagged messages - show filtering progress in the status bar - filters dialog is now more convenient to use - new mail reporting was made less intrusive Bug fixes: - reading newsgroups doesn't crash the program immediately - parsing of complex MIME structures fixed - language autodetection fixed - fixed crash when viewing messages with wrong date Please see the CHANGES file in the distribution for an even more detailed list of changes. Future Plans ===================================================================== Next, we hope to tackle the following: - improving the message editor (work in progress) - full HTML message editing/displaying (almost complete) - multi-threading to allow network operations to happen in background - PGP/GPG support - LDAP support Please direct any queries to mahogany-developers@lists.sourceforge.net and don't hesitate to contact us if you would like to participate in Mahogany development! Known bugs: ----------- *** Please note that Mahogany/UNIX is officially in beta state while *** Mahogany/Win32 is still considered to be in alpha stage (although *** we use both versions on the daily basis). There are always some, listed on our bugtracker at http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/bugz/ and we are working on them. Hoping you will find Mahogany useful, M dev-team