[libEtPan-devel] [ANNOUNCE] XetPan 0.0.37 - a libEtPan! based mail client

[Melvin H. <mel...@fr...>]

Hi,

XetPan, a mail client based on libEtPan! has reached a stage where it is
quite usable. Yet, it is still at a very alpha level.

For more details, please see:

http://melvin.hadasht.free.fr/home/xetpan/index.html

See the news link for what to expect from the current release. See
also the PROBLEMS file in the source package. Uulib from uudeview.
is included in the tar balls but not in the CVS repository.

The release is meant for hackers or for the curious. 
To summarize, you can create an account (but you cannot yet use the UI 
to define an MTA), retrieve messages, delete, expunge, compose, reply 
(no forward), MIME-attach files, view uuencoded/yEnc/yEnc2/BINHEX 
inlined files. It supports UTF-8, so you read/compose in any language
you want.

Concerning the MTA problem, you can edit the
~/.xetpan/configuration.xml. A sample config and a DTD file are
provided in the sample_config/ directory. 

Objectives:
- multi-interface mail client. Currently the only UI is based on Gtk+2.2.x 
but the infrastructure for a Tty is there. An embryonic tty is in fact 
implemented and can even run in parallel with the Gtk+ interface.

- emphasize on [power]user friendliness, useability, smallest possible 
memory footprint, best possible interactivity and fastest possible mail 
management.

- multi-threaded. Each folder has its specific thread. Thread management 
is currently quasi-inexistent, but it is aimed to have XetPan able to run 
without threads.

- scriptable. A Python console is already included, yet there are only
two function that are exported

-- 
Melvin Hadasht