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GNUMail

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Developer(s)
  
Collaboration World

Available in
  
multiple languages

Written in
  
Objective-C

GNUMail

Original author(s)
  
Ludovic Marcotte and others

Stable release
  
1.2.2 / October 26, 2014; 2 years ago (2014-10-26)

Operating system
  
Cross-platform (OpenStep)

GNUMail (a.k.a. GNUMail.app) is a free and open source, cross-platform mail client for GNUstep and Cocoa. It is the official mail client of GNUstep and is also used in Étoilé. It was inspired by NeXTMail (NeXT's Mail.app), the predecessor of Apple Mail. GNUMail is based on the mail handling framework Pantomime.

Furthermore, GNUMail demonstrates that it is possible to develop cross platform programs for GNUstep and Cocoa.

Features

  • Supported protocols: POP3 (with APOP support), IMAP4 and UNIX; SMTP
  • Supports TLS with all protocols
  • Mail spool file support for receiving
  • File formats for local saving: Maildir, Berkeley mbox
  • Filters for incoming and outgoing mail which support regular expressions
  • Thread Arcs for email thread visualization and navigation
  • Find Panel supporting regular expressions
  • Ability to add custom mailheaders
  • Native support for PGP/GPG encryption

    • References

    GNUMail Wikipedia
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