GNUMail.app User's Guideby Martin Brecher <martin@mb-itconsulting.com>
About this Document [top of page]Purpose [top of page]This guide will introduce you to the usage of GNUMail.app, the GNUstep mail client. It is oriented towards both users new to the world of GNUstep as well as more experienced UNIX users. A German version may follow when the guide is mostly complete. Structure [top of page]First, we will install Pantomime, a GNUstep EMail library which is required by GNUMail.app. Then we will set up GNUMail.app on our GNUstep system; described are the compilation and intallation as well as setting the program options using GNUMail.app's graphical Preferences panel. After that we will start exploring GNUMail.app, describing what it looks like and sending ourself a little test mail. In the middle part we will discuss GNUMail.app's functions in detail. This part is meant to be both: an introduction as well as a reference. This guide is expanded by lots of screenshots which serve the purpose of showing and explaining the user interface of this nice application. Additinally the guide has some sections labeled 'Advanced lections' which describe some of GNUstep's internals. These parts may be confusing for novice users, so they may be left out since they are not essential. Requirements [top of page]On all platforms you need the email library Pantomime. Its installation will described later ins this guide. On GNUstep system you should ensure that you have installed a very recent CVS snapshot of
GNUstep. The snapshot must not be older than the release of GNUMail.app/Pantomime. I only tested it with a CVS update
from Jan 17 2002 (snapshot 20020117)!
On Mac OS X you need to have Apple's Developer Tools installed which you can can download freely from Apple's Developer Website. (Of course you do not need GNUstep on Mac OS X). Copyright [top of page]Copyright (c) 2001 Martin Brecher <martin@mb-itconsulting.com> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts being "GNUMail.app User's Guide", and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is available through the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". GNU Free Documentation LicenseThis document is copyrighted according to the FSFs GNU Free Documentation License of which the most recent copy can be obtained from http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html. Trademarks [top of page]Apple and Mac OS X are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. NeXT, NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are trademarks of NeXT Software, Inc. Version history [top of page]Jan 31 2002: Rewrote address book chapter to match changes in latest GNUMail.app version. Jan 17 2002: Several minor updates, mostly for GNUMail.app 1.0.0pre1. Dec 26 2001: Extended Reading Mail chapter; added General Notes part. Dec 25 2001: New chapter: Reading Mail Dec 24 2001: Updates, fixes; Preferences: added Quoting and Filtering. Dec 23 2001: New structure (multiple files); updates for 0.9.0; removed procmail chapter as GNUMail has its own filtering features now. Nov 30 2001: Updates, fixes for 0.8.0; new chapter: "Changing defaults of Mailboxes." Oct 26 2001: Few Updates for 0.8.0pre2; procmail: Backup example added. Oct 12 2001: Few Updates for 0.8.0pre1, minor expansions. Oct 06 2001: Few Updates for 0.7.0. Procmail example completed. Added Appendix. Sep 28 2001: Few Updates for 0.7.0: features list, installation Sep 19 2001: Updates for 0.7.0pre2: required use of Pantomime library Sep 14 2001: Extended: Installation chapter Sep 13 2001: Added chapters: Address Book, Mailbox Management. Sep 06 2001: Some updates for GNUMail.app 0.7.0pre1 Aug 26 2001: Initial writing Credits [top of page]
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