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- NOTE: This archive was compressed using GNU gzip. Gzip achieves
- considerably better compression rates and higher decompression speeds
- than compress, but it is not installed on machines running operating
- system versions older than NeXTStep 3.1. You can get it from
- prep.ai.mit.edu and many other fine anon ftp sites.
-
- Mail.app utilities 1.5
- ======================
-
- This is the sixth release of the Mail.app utilities. For a list of
- changes see the end of this file.
-
- The archive contains three command line tools useful in conjunction
- with Mail.app. Nextmail has a command line interface similar to UCB
- mail but instead of sending the letter it puts it in a Mail.app
- compose window. Appnmail appends messages to the end of Mail.app
- mailboxes while taking care to properly handle locks, NeXT mail and
- the table of contents. Compactmail compacts Mail.app mailboxes just
- like the Compact menu item does. (In addition, there is also a small
- utility called listmail which lists Mail.app table_of_contents. This
- is a minor program created mainly for my own debugging, but as it may
- come in handy for others it is part of this package as well.)
-
- There are also three other files in this package. Sendmail-addheadsig
- will automatically add headers, ASCII signatures or even RTF or RTFD
- signatures to your outgoing Mail.app letters. After installation,
- change the Mail.app "Mailer" expert preference to point to the
- location of this script (/usr/local/lib/sendmail-addheadsig by
- default) and all the lines in your ~/.add-header files will be added
- to the header, the ASCII text of ~/.signature will be added at the end
- of outgoing non-NeXTmail messages and the contents of
- ~/.signature.rtfd (and if that doesn't exist, ~/.signature.rtf) will
- be added to the end of outgoing NeXTmail messages. This allows you
- e.g. to automatically add your own TIFF picture or digitized real
- signature to all NeXTmail you send.
-
- Sendmail-remote is installed just like sendmail-addheadsig is. It
- will cause Mail.app to run sendmail on another machine. This may not
- be widely useful but in some situations it is invaluable.
-
- There is also an emacs-lisp program called gnus-mailapp.el. It will
- integrate Mail.app with GNUS to the same degree Mail.app is integrated
- with NewsGrazer. For instructions on how to enable its features, read
- the comments at the beginning of gnus-mailapp.el. MyMail.ts is a set
- of TickleServices (for use with Scott Hess TickleServices.app) which
- make use of the mailapp utilities.
-
- All have only been tested under NeXTStep 3.[0123], but for all but
- nextmail no reason to assume that they won't also work under earlier
- versions of the operating system. For more detail see the included
- man pages.
-
- Personally I use appnmail in conjunction with procmail which makes a
- very powerful combination for handling incoming mail. Nextmail
- (together with a number of elisp functions also included in this
- archive) causes all mail which I would send from within emacs (such as
- replies to articles read in GNUS) to be redirected through Mail.app,
- though many other uses are imaginable as well. Compactmail was
- created to help all the people screaming about the lack of an
- autocompact feature in Mail.app.
-
- Installation should be no problem if you have the standard directory
- structure for local programs (i.e.. binaries in /usr/local/bin, man
- pages in /usr/local/man/man[1-8ln], emacs lisp files in
- /usr/local/lib/emacs/site-lisp). Just type 'make install'. Otherwise
- you'll just have to put the binaries and man pages into the proper
- directories by hand or edit the Makefile.
-
- If you find any bugs or have any problems feel free to email me.
-
- Carl Edman 3-31-96
- <cedman@princeton.edu>
-
-
- CHANGES
- =======
-
- 1.4 to 1.5:
-
- * Added workaround for Mail.app 3.3 NeXTmail bug
-
- * Added mbox2bsd
-
- * Correct handling of message priorities
-
- * Elimination of stale locks left by other applications
-
- * Appnmail can mark messages as flagged as well as read/unread/deleted
-
- * All mailapp utilities are more aggressive about detecting stale locks
-
- 1.3 to 1.4:
-
- * Appnmail now accepts multiple mail messages with the -m option (no, it doesn't !)
-
- * added -t option to listmail on suggestion by
- Hadar Pedhazur <ubs!hadar@uunet.uu.net>.
-
- 1.2 to 1.3:
-
- * Extremely evil byte order bug on little endian machines was fixed. The
- utilities now do work under NS/FIP.
-
- * Support for NS 3.3.
-
- * MyMail.ts added.
-
- * Undocumented searchmail added.
-
- * The mailapp utilities work with hierarchical mailboxes.
-
- * Mime messages are classified correctly.
-
- * The mailapp utilities interpret '~' in path names.
-
- 1.1 to 1.2:
-
- * compactmail may work under NS/FIP now.
-
- * appnmail has been speeded up about 100x. On large messages this really
- matters.
-
- * A minor bug in appnmail was fixed which when the incoming message
- had a malformed Date header could cause Mail.app to believe that the
- mailbox directory was corrupted and recreate the table_of_contents
- file. This error could not cause the loss of mail messages.
-
- * Listmail has a man page now.
-
- * The Mail.app utilities are compiled fat.
-
- * Compactmail tries not to touch a mailbox at all if there are no
- deleted messages in it.
-
- * First public release of GNUS/Mail.app interface.
-
- * The Mail.app utilities are now NS/FIP compatible thanks to Todd Swan
- <tms@cfc.com>.
-
- * The Mail.app utilities now include sendmail-addheadsig.
-
- * Compactmail adds the -d, -s, -f and -u options.
-
- 1.0 to 1.1:
-
- * Compactmail and Listmail were added.
-
- 1.0:
-
- * First public release
-