Welcome to Gnome-Jupiter

In general, Jupiter should become a MUA talking SMTP and POP3 (maybe IMAP in a later version). You can use several different POP3-Accounts, which are properly seperated. I think about including support for GnuPG in order to send and receive coded/signed messages in an easy manner. I will also include MIME-Support. HTML-mails can be read with your favoured browser. The interface will remain simple, but I try to make it powerful, but usable and intuitive.

And the best: it is completely written with vim!

I know: it's a little bit vague, but come back sometimes and look what changed. Maybe, it'll wake up your interest.

For running Gnupiter you need several Perl-Moduls. You can get them from CPAN.

	GDBM_FIle for account-persistence
	Mail::Cclient (with libc-client4.7)
	IO::Scalar
	MIME::Tools
	Net::(POP3|SMTP)
	IO::Scalar
	Locale::gettext for localisation
	Last but not least: Gnome - and Gtk - modules

All other needed Modules (Data::Dumper, POSIX, Fcntl) should be included in the standard perl-distribtions, I think.

I don't know with which browser this site looks best, but with galeon (ie. the gecko rendering engine) it looks quite good, IMHO.

News:

Sunday, 13. Mai 2001:

Currently there is some pause in the development of Jupiter, since I got involved in some bug-tracking for vim. On the other hand I try some C again. Maybe I move back to C with embeded perl. ;-) There is also another idea, which I have to think about: why not leave Gnome and only use Gtk in favor for a console frontend? Maybe, I find a solution to use Gnome as well as a console version.

Tuesday, 17. April 2001:

	SMTP is fixed.
	I have added a new option that concers sending mails: When sending a message you will be asked, if want to send all messages in the queue (ie. outbox) or only this one message you are sending. With the new option, you set this behaviour to "ask", "yes" and "no". Pretty self-explanatory, I think.

Monday, 16. April 2001:

	Attachments works :). You can now send them, with *CORRECT* mime-type like image/jpeg, text/plain or application/x-gzip.
	Disadvantage: SMTP is broken due to rebuild of the message handling-code. But it will be fixed as soon as possible.

Sunday, 08. April 2001:

	It's done! I succeeded in "Stochastik" and "Numerische Methoden der linearen Algebra". :-)))))
	I will add some fucntions to move/copy mails between folders, which are accesible over a popup-menu over the CList-Widget.
	Behind the scenes I use a selfmade widget to display the contents of a mail. Basically it's just wrapper around Gtk::Text with some tendency to Gnome::Less but with colour-support! :-) It features a popup-menu as well to trigger mail-related functions.

Thursday, 29. March 2001:

I am experimenting with the Text::Autoformat-Module for doing quote-wrapping and other nifty formatting features, since it is much more sophisticated than my poor little self-implemnted format-function.

Saturday, 24. March 2001:

	After some long period of not working on Jupiter (sorry..), I added a preview for html-mails. Now there still need of some MIME-Handling options in configuration, so that everyone can add his preferred program to handle special MIME-types.
	MIME-handling has now a standard fallback-function to save unsupported MIME-types to disk. HTML und plain text is displayed correctly. Images can be viewed.
	Ok, ok, ... My implementation sucks. I'll have to rewrite a lot of code. I hope this will improve readibility as well as performance.

Problems? Questions? Suggestions? mikesh@users.sourceforge.net