Spruce email client v0.6.5
by Jeffrey Stedfast <xtort@xtorshun.org>
Additional code by Kristoffer Brånemyr <ztion@swipnet.se>
Legal:
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Spruce
Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Jeffrey Stedfast
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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How it came to be:
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This started out as a project for my advanced
programming class and I'm just not the type
to do the minimal requirements for an A
so that's why I coded an email client :)
. o O ( I'm sure you are all thoroughly impressed... )
Features:
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> Random "signatures" on each email (see sprucesig.sample for an example)
> A custom signature file
> Send/Receive email
> Multiple Mailboxes (unlimited)
> Mbox folders
> Multiple Pop3/IMAP accounts (unlimited)
> Easy to use Account manager
> Easy to use Address book
> Filters (plain text matching, regex, and shell wildcards)
> Drag and Drop
> Mime
> and more...
Requirements:
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Glib >= 1.2.7 (*must* be compiled with thread support)
Gtk+ >= 1.2.0 (*must* be compiled with thread support)
libpthread A POSIX compliant threading library
Optional:
Gettext 0.10.35 needed for NLS
metamail 2.7 needed for Attachments->View menu item
PGG needed for GNU Privacy Guard support
Other requirements are unknown at this time.
Installation:
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1. Run the configure script (you know the drill).
./configure [--enable-gpg] [--with-bgti]
2. Make the executable.
make
3. Install it
make install
4. Copy sprucesig.sample to your spruce directory as sprucesig
or you may copy it to /etc/sprucesig if you have many users
who wish to use the same sprucesig file (since we all know
how popular my sprucesig.sample is ;-)
cp sprucesig.sample ~/.spruce/sprucesig
or
./extras.inst
(or else make up your own sig file... 1 signature per line!)
5. Clean up our mess before mom yells... :(
make clean
6. Execute spruce
spruce
7. If spruce segfaults on it's first run, please try executing
spruce.inst and then run spruce again. Thanks.
./spruce.inst
Tada!
Usage:
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Usage: spruce [options ...]
options:
--bindings show key bindings and exit
-h, --help output this help and exit
-i, --icons use icons in toolbars
-t, --text use text in toolbars
-o, --both use both text and icons in toolbars
-v, --version print version information and exit
special:
--mailto <address> specify a mail-to (TO) address
--cc <address> specify a carbon-copy (CC) address
--bcc <address> specify a blind carbon-copy (BCC) address
--subject <subject> specify a subject (must be in quotes if it has spaces)
Proven to work on these systems:
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GNU/Linux (kernels 2.0.3x and 2.2.x)
FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/ports/mail.html)
IRIX
Digital Unix
HP-UX 11.00
SCO UNIX
OS/2
Bugs:
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There are no bugs that we know of at this time
so if you find one, please contact us
xtort@xtorshun.org
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