GNUMail.app User's Guide

by Martin Brecher <martin@mb-itconsulting.com>


Contents

About GNUMail.app
What is GNUMail?
Features


About GNUMail.app [top of page]

What is GNUMail.app? [top of page]

Basically, GNUMail.app is the mail client of choice for your GNUstep System. Being a GNU application, GNUMail.app is not only developed by its project founder, Ludovic Marcotte <ludovic@Sophos.ca>, but is contributed to by a number of people from over the world (see the Info Panel for more information). It was started as a clone of the beloved Mail.app of NeXT which (today!) is still used on a daily basis by many people. Being a core GNUstep application, GNUMail.app tries to give us the elegant look and feel of the old NeXT Mail.app and implement most of its features apart from many new ones. Still GNUMail.app is in developement but is already very stable and fast! - And it's even getting better with every new release.

The author of GNUMail.app also maintains a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

Features [top of page]

The following list is taken from the GNUMail.app Homepage:

Version 1.0.0pre1 has the following supported features:

  • Multiple POP3 accounts with persistence (for receiving), SMTP or sendmail (for delivery);
  • Mail spool file support for receiving;
  • Good IMAP support with local caching;
  • Full RFC822 support and RFC2822;
  • Read, compose, reply and forward mails ;
  • Mailbox management (create, delete, locking and transfer messages) using the Berkeley mbox format;
  • Personal preferences management;
  • MIME support (decode and encode);
  • A full MIME types manager;
  • Quoted Printable support (mostly complete);
  • Address Book;
  • Find Panel;
  • Automatic or manual fetching of your mails (user's choice);
  • Powerful filters that supports regular expressions;
  • And more...

Hopefully, the following features will be soon available:

  • New Preferences panel;
  • GPG (PGP) support;
  • And more...


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