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I'm putting the project on a temporary hiatus, as I'll be unable to work on it for the entire month of April. I'll have a very limited contact, so if you need anything, e-mail me.

I awoke on February 1 to the grusome news that Columbia was missing in action. I had been following the mission for its entire duration, as I had for every mission since STS-108, and was looking forward to the astronauts realizing their goal of a mission--postponed for over two years--finally completed. Such was not to be the case.

Eileen Collins is scheduled to command STS-114, which was due to launch on March 1, and replace Expedition Six with Expedition Seven on the ISS. This, obviously will not happen, and I am waiting with the rest of the world to see what happens.... read more

We now have a project team assembled which I feel will enable us to meet all of our goals and have a stable product by June 1. I'm going to screen a few more inquiries and the project could grow to 12 or 13 before the week is out.

I'd like to extend a warm welcome to Jake, our first developer to come forward on this project. I appreciate his willingness to help and his contributions are going to be vital to the success of the project. From what I hear, we may have a source tree finished by March 1st, and soon after that, I get to figure out the development cycle. :)

For the sake of quality control, if anyone else wants to be a developer on this project, please e-mail me and I'll take your request into consideration. Previous SourceForge experience is highly desirable.

Here's some things I was thinking about, and I'm inviting anyone who has a better idea to please let me know.

Project components will include the following modules:

Process module - Actual daemon process which runs when socket is activated; the cornerstone for the rest of the application. Also sends data to external programs to be processed.

Config module - Reads configuration file and processes accordingly. The config file will contain the instructions on what to execute with each message.... read more

I'd like to take a moment and say that we have a webmaster and a project architecture designer. Thanks to them for voluenteering their time to this project. The next step: programmers and documentation writers.

Unless someone has a very good reason for me not to, I've decided to license the software I am going to develop under the QPL.

This project has been created to serve as a proxy server for SpamAssassin, Razor, and anything else you want to put between your mail server and your mail client (in theory, mail could be sent through gzip.

The idea of the project is to work with any program (or programs) which accept some text from stdin and write it back to stdout. The goal is to also make it protocol-independant, enabling it to work with POP3, IMAP, or whatever you would like to pass to it.... read more