[arachne] [Fwd: ANNOUNCE: Mutt 1.5.5 Email Client for DOS / Windows / DJGPP]

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Subject: ANNOUNCE: Mutt 1.5.5 Email Client for DOS / Windows / DJGPP
Date: 27 Jun 2005 23:23:24 -0700
From: bdeck <bdeck@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.mail.mutt,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.mail-news,comp.os.msdos.apps

Mutt 1.5.5 for DOS / Windows / DJGPP has been released and is available
from the programming page of http://www.caddit.net .


Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix
operating systems. This release has incorperated modified patches for
NNTP, POP and SMTP ('builtin' sendmail) and calls to external apps
(i.e. 'print', 'pipe message' and 'pipe attachment') work for the most
part. Direct IMAP support is also included, although it is recommend to
use an external IMAP client like 'isync'. A sample %DJDIR%/etc/_muttrc
is included. Change to taste.


MuttD is a DOS-DJGPP implementation of this package, and it is
downloadable from
the CADD-IT network ( http://www.caddit.net ). It has been build using
WATTCP-32 R8 (available at http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/ ) and requires a
DOS packet driver to run. For those using DJGPP under NT or WIN32 I
recommend trying/buying/installing NDIS3Pkt available at
http://www.danlan.com/ . You can get a sample wattcp.cfg from
http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/ for setting up Wattcp on your DOS system if
you have not already done so. One is *not included* in this package.


The modified sources are also being made available. There were many
modifications and hacks, most notibly bypassing the
'mutt_create_filter' and 'mutt_create_filter_fd' functions for reading
or writing messages or attachments to/from external processes. I know
that they are a bit hackish, so please don't bother complaining (i.e.
not '#ifdef __DJGPP__' used at every modification, although in the
majority of cases). If you use 'make clean', the configuration header
will also be re-written, so make a backup to compare with. (I just
search/delete all .o, .a and .exe files).


For more information about using configuring and using Mutt see the
project site:
 http://www.mutt.org/


Regards,
Ben


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