blueMail Offline Mail Reader
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What is blueMail?
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blueMail is an offline mail packet reader for Unix and other systems, based
on MultiMail which was originally developed by Kolossvary Tamas, Toth Istvan,
John Zero, and then by William McBrine <wmcbrine@clark.net>.

blueMail supports the Blue Wave and QWK packet formats and will support some
different formats like FTS message bases and some Internet protocols like
POP3, SMTP, and NNTP in the future. It is designed to be a reasonable
alternative to the Blue Wave mail reader. blueMail has a full screen, colored
user interface, built with the curses library, and it also compiles under
MSDOS and OS/2.

blueMail is free, "open source" software, distributed under the GNU General
Public License; its current maintainer is Ingo Brueckl <ib@wupperonline.de>.

You can get the latest version from:

  http://home.wtal.de/ib/bluemail


Requirements
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 * Unix-compatible (POSIX) system, MSDOS with DJGPP, or OS/2 with EMX
 * curses -- tested with ncurses 1.9.3+, and PDCurses
 * gcc (g++) 2.7.0+ -- may work with other C++ compilers, not tested
 * InfoZip, and/or other compressing archivers
 * GNU make *may* be required on some systems


What's new in this version?
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You can find a kind of history in the TODO list.

See INSTALL for the installation procedure, and the man page (bmail.1, or
bmail.doc for DOS or OS/2) for information on usage.


Tested Systems
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I'd like to get blueMail run on multiple platforms. I've personally used it
on:

  MSDOS 6.22, Pentium II, DJGPP 2.01, PDCurses 2.2
  Linux 2.0.35, Slackware-based, Pentium II, gcc 2.7.2.3, ncurses 4.2
  Linux 2.0.33, Debian 1.3, Pentium, gcc 2.7.2.1, ncurses 3.0_1.9.9e
  Linux 2.0.33, Debian 2.0, Pentium, egcs 1.0.3, ncurses 4_4.2

If you get it going on a dissimilar system, please let me know (along with
any necessary patches).
