Jaromil on Mon, 12 May 2014 16:38:05 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> releasing Jaro Mail :^) 2.0 |
dear nettimers, I'm posting this console software release here knowing that many people reading this list are old-school email aficionados (if not usenet or even more ancient stuff) hence this aptly named software might be of use for some. It is what I use myself for the task since several years now, nicely packaged and documented (check the PDF manual, if you really want to give it a try is necessary). Its saving me *a lot* of time checking emails thanks to whitelisting and its great at facilitating use of personal email setups to avoid GOOG and others - postfix+dovecot2 on a VPS and there you go, for the joy of you and your friends! Among the new features of this 2.0 release is the possibility to easily send out anonymous emails via the Mixmaster network by just changing the "From:" field in Mutt. Annunciazio'! annunciazio'! Mari'! Mari'! Dyne.org Free Software Foundry proudly releases: oo oo dP 88 dP .d8888b. 88d888b. .d8888b. 88d8b.d8b. .d8888b. dP 88 88 88' `88 88' `88 88' `88 88'`88'`88 88' `88 88 88 88 88. .88 88 88. .88 88 88 88 88. .88 88 88 88 `88888P8 dP `88888P' dP dP dP `88888P8 dP dP 88~ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo odP your humble and faithful electronic postman *A commandline tool to easily and privately handle your e-mail* Version: **2.0** Website: http://dyne.org/software/jaro-mail # INTRODUCTION JaroMail is an integrated suite of interoperable tools for GNU/Linux and Apple/OSX to manage e-mail communication in a private and efficient way, without relying too much on on-line services, in fact encouraging users to store e-mail locally. Rather than reinventing the wheel, JaroMail reuses existing free and open source tools working since more than 10 years: executable | function ---------- | -------------------- ZShell | scripting language Mutt | Mail User Agent Fetchmail | Mail Transport Agent MSmtp | the mini SMTP Mairix | search engine ABook | addressbook Elinks | HTML rendering A round-up on JaroMail features follows: ![JaroMail functions diagram](http://files.dyne.org/jaromail/diagram.png) * Minimalistic interface with automatic threading * Targets intensive usage of mailinglists * Does whitelisting and integrates addressbooks * Can do search and backup using easy expressions * Automatically generates reusable filter rules (Sieve) * Computes and shows statistics on mail traffic * Secure password storage (GPG native, OSX and Gnome keyrings) * Stores e-mails locally in a reliable format (Maildir) * Defers connections, all operations run off-line * Checks SSL server certificates (imap, smtp) * Supports strong encryption messaging (GnuPG) * Sends completely anonymous emails (Mixmaster3) * Is multi platform: GNU/Linux/BSD, Apple/OSX * Old school, used by its author for the past 15 years # INSTALL **Apple/OSX** users can simply drag JaroMail into /Applications When started JaroMail opens a Terminal window preconfigured with its environment, to activate it for any terminal add this to `~/.profile`: : . /Applications/JaroMail.app/Contents/MacOS/jaroenv.sh Please note the dot and space at the beginning of the line above. **GNU/Linux** users can run `make` to install all needed components (done automatically, requires root) and compile auxiliary tools. Once compiled then `make install` will put JaroMail in `/usr/local`. The dependencies to be installed on the system for JaroMail are * build: `bison flex make autoconf automake sqlite3 libgnome-keyring-dev` * run: `fetchmail msmtp mutt mairix pinentry abook wipe` Bare in mind **you need to read the Manual**: this software is not graphical, it is not meant to be intuitive, does not contains eyecandies (except for stats on mail traffic). JaroMail is operated via Terminal, configured in plain text and overall made by geeks for geeks. # Manual and usage instructions For a brief overview see the commandline help: ``` jaro -h ``` When in doubt, make sure you read the User's Manual, it is important. Download the PDF: https://files.dyne.org/jaromail/jaromail-manual.pdf Or browse online the latest version: https://github.com/dyne/JaroMail/blob/master/doc/jaromail-manual.org # DEVELOPERS All revisioned in Git, see: https://github.com/dyne/JaroMail Pull requests and patches welcome, for an overview of current plans see [TODO](TODO.md) Our chat channel is **#dyne** on https://irc.dyne.org Make sure to idle in that channel, answers take some time to come. We are all idling artists. # DONATE Donations are very welcome and well needed. By donating you will encourage further development. https://www.dyne.org/donate # ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The JaroMail software and user's manual is conceived, designed and put together with a substantial amount of ZShell scripts and some C code by Denis Roio aka [Jaromil](http://jaromil.dyne.org). The email envelop NyanCat graphics is kindly contributed by the SociÃtà ECOGEX. JaroMail makes use of many external components to work and here below there is a non-inclusive list of those, with authors and contributors. ## Mutt The Mutt build Jaro Mail refers to is maintained by Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>, to whom goes much gratitude for his immense support and maintainance of the Mutt package in Debian GNU/Linux. Here below the list of Mutt authors: ``` Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Michael R. Elkins <me@cs.hmc.edu> Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Brandon Long <blong@fiction.net> Copyright (C) 1997-2008 Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Werner Koch <wk@isil.d.shuttle.de> Copyright (C) 1999-2009 Brendan Cully <brendan@kublai.com> Copyright (C) 1999-2002 Tommi Komulainen <Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi> Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Edmund Grimley Evans <edmundo@rano.org> Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Rocco Rutte <pdmef@gmx.net> ``` ## Mairix The Mairix search engine is licensed GNU GPL v2, made by: ``` Copyright (C) Richard P. Curnow 2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008 Copyright (C) Sanjoy Mahajan 2005 Copyright (C) James Cameron 2005 Copyright (C) Paul Fox 2006 ``` With contributions by: Anand Kumria, Andrà Costa, Andreas Amann, Andre Costa, Aredridel, BalÃzs SzabÃ, Bardur Arantsson, Benj. Mako Hill, Chris Mason, Christoph Dworzak, Christopher Rosado, Chung-chieh Shan, Claus Alboege, Corrin Lakeland, Dan Egnor, Daniel Jacobowitz, Dirk Huebner, Ed Blackman, Emil Sit, Felipe Gustavo de Almeida, Ico Doornekamp, Jaime Velasco Juan, James Leifer, Jerry Jorgenson, Joerg Desch, Johannes Schindelin, Johannes WeiÃl, John Arthur Kane, John Keener, Jonathan Kamens, Josh Purinton, Karsten Petersen, Kevin Rosenberg, Mark Hills, Martin Danielsson, Matthias Teege, Mikael Ylikoski, Mika Fischer, Oliver Braun, Paramjit Oberoi, Paul Fox, Peter Chines, Peter Jeremy, Robert Hofer, Roberto Boati, Samuel Tardieu, Sanjoy Mahajan, Satyaki Das, Steven Lumos, Tim Harder, Tom Doherty, Vincent Lefevre, Vladimir V. Kisil, Will Yardley, Wolfgang Weisselberg. ## MSmtp MSmtp is developed and maintained by Martin Lambers. The RFC 822 address parser (fetchaddr) is originally written by Michael Elkins for the Mutt MUA. ## ABQuery The gateway to Apple/OSX addressbook (ABQuery) was written by Brendan Cully and just slightly updated for our distribution. ## Stats modules We are also including some (experimental, still) modules for statistical visualization using JQuery libraries: ``` Timecloud is Copyright (C) 2008-2009 by Stefan Marsiske TagCloud version 1.1.2 (c) 2006 Lyo Kato <lyo.kato@gmail.com> ExCanvas is Copyright 2006 Google Inc. jQuery project is distributed by the JQuery Foundation under the terms of either the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2. The Sizzle selector engine is held by the Dojo Foundation and is licensed under the MIT, GPL, and BSD licenses. JQuery.sparkline 2.0 is licensed under the New BSD License Visualize.JQuery by Scott Jehl Copyright (c) 2009 Filament Group ``` # Disclaimer JaroMail is Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Denis Roio <jaromil@dyne.org> This source code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This source code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Please refer to the GNU Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Public License along with this source code; if not, write to: Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. -- http://jaromil.dyne.org GPG: B2D9 9376 BFB2 60B7 601F 5B62 F6D3 FBD9 C2B6 8E39 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org