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 Published by Oliver Tappe
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 Date Posted:   February 20th, 2002
 Last Updated:   March 27th, 2008
 License: See Below
 Downloads: 9,185 total; 186 recently
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About Beam:
Beam (BEware, Another Mailer) is an open source e-mail client that aims to be fast, stable and feature-complete.

So what does Beam currently offer?
  • Multiple Mail-Accounts (POP & SMTP), with support for default-acounts and automatic selection of appropriate account when replying, etc...
  • Fully MIME compliant (Beam passes the MIME-Torture-Test)
  • Performance adequate for large mail-folders (10000 msgs), with optional mail-caching
  • POP-authentication (POP3, APOP, CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5)
  • SMTP-authentication (SmtpAfterPop, PLAIN, LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5)
  • Many configuration options, esp. for mail-construction.
  • Full header-control, you can directly edit mail-headers before sending a message
  • Stability (I hope - having used Beam for years now as my main email-client with only a few problems)
  • Filter capabilities (using SIEVE and a SPAM-filter)
  • Identities, separating the user-info (name, mail-address, signature) from the network-info (server-address, login & password)
  • Full Support for people-files (you can create, edit and use them)
  • Secure Transport (TLS, SSL), by means of OpenSSL
  • Preliminary IMAP-support (fetches mails just as POP3 does)

What's going to come?

  • Online user-documentation
  • Virtual mail-folders, as in Postmaster
  • Searching through mail-folders, with possibility to save searches as virtual folders
  • Support for mailing-lists, with automatic mail-threading
  • Decent IMAP support, with seamless integration into local mail-handling
  • Secure mail-contents by means of GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard) and perhaps S/MIME

Any further suggestions are welcome!

N.B.: Beam requires four shared libraries, liblayout.so, libiconv.so, libpcre.so and libpcreposix.so.
For easier installation, I have provided archives that contain these libraries, so if you do not already have these libraries installed on your system, please pick one of the archives that include the libs.
Original
version 1.1.2 - GPL 
   
Details about this version:
Beam 1.1.2 is a bugfix and maintenance release, with the following changes:
  • added a warning before a mail without any subject is being sent
  • turned a couple of logged errors into proper alerts, as they deserve that kind of attention (mail fields missing values)
  • fixed a really bad bug that caused problems with mails that contained 0xA0 as part of UTF-8 sequences
  • cleaned up (i.e. removed) several options for the SPAM-filter, as they should all be switched on at all times anyway
  • added one more option that allows the user to select whether or not the SPAM-filter should stop processing the filter chain for mails considered SPAM
  • used the free space in the SPAM-filter GUI to rearrange the options more pleasingly (for my liking, at least)
  • fixed bug causing infinite flooding with change messages for ListID textcontrol, causing havoc and sometimes even crashes
  • Fixed problematic copying of mail-header when copying mails (Edit As New...), which could lead to problems when the mail is being sent to a mailing list (that would be fooled into thinking the mail looped). Now we rebuild the mail header based only on the basic fields (Bcc, Cc, From, Reply-To, Subject, To).
  • minor improvement with respect to handling of List-Post field when trying to determine the list address.
  • when replying to a list, we now pay attention to the reply-to field, as this is required when a list redirects replies to another list
  • added support for changing the shortcuts of a toolbar on-the-fly
  • added two missing shortcuts (I am pretty sure more are missing)
  • replaced very unreliable way of matching against identity aliases by a much more robust way. The basic idea was insane, as mails with mail-addresses that could not be used as regex would cause Beam to fail downloading this and any other mail from that specific account, doh!
  • minor bugfix related to case-insensitivity of IMAP server responses
  • fixed bug with SMTP not working when the user requests no authentication at all.
  • adjusted POP3 and IMAP along the same lines, i.e. to work without authentication (although it is much more unlikely that this will ever be used).
  • added support for setting the List-Id from within a matching filter. This is very handy in order to force mails to have come from specific lists (which sometimes is not the case if people do multiposting and the like).
  • fixed bug with LearnAsSpam/Tofu-control not being usable at all
  • applied several changes towards a more consistent style of GUI text (esp. considering the case style of labels)
  • put the MailConverter-tool (which adds attributes to mail files that have come from non-BFS-partitions) back into a working state
  • fixed problem when adding more than one mail-address via the address-popup (e.g. a group)
  • improved handling of people files that have incomplete/inconsistent data
  • fixed a crashing bug when editing the headers of a mail
  • editing the subject now updates the window title, as it should
  • replying to a mail that has more than one recipient automatically selects reply-to-all (unless reply-to-person has been selected explicitly)
  • fixed endless loop in wrapping code that could be triggered by unusual amounts of whitespace (80 chars) in one line


 
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version 1.1.2 - GPL 
   
Variation description:
This variation comes with all libraries required by Beam.

Details about this version:
Beam 1.1.2 is a bugfix and maintenance release, with the following changes:
  • added a warning before a mail without any subject is being sent
  • turned a couple of logged errors into proper alerts, as they deserve that kind of attention (mail fields missing values)
  • fixed a really bad bug that caused problems with mails that contained 0xA0 as part of UTF-8 sequences
  • cleaned up (i.e. removed) several options for the SPAM-filter, as they should all be switched on at all times anyway
  • added one more option that allows the user to select whether or not the SPAM-filter should stop processing the filter chain for mails considered SPAM
  • used the free space in the SPAM-filter GUI to rearrange the options more pleasingly (for my liking, at least)
  • fixed bug causing infinite flooding with change messages for ListID textcontrol, causing havoc and sometimes even crashes
  • Fixed problematic copying of mail-header when copying mails (Edit As New...), which could lead to problems when the mail is being sent to a mailing list (that would be fooled into thinking the mail looped). Now we rebuild the mail header based only on the basic fields (Bcc, Cc, From, Reply-To, Subject, To).
  • minor improvement with respect to handling of List-Post field when trying to determine the list address.
  • when replying to a list, we now pay attention to the reply-to field, as this is required when a list redirects replies to another list
  • added support for changing the shortcuts of a toolbar on-the-fly
  • added two missing shortcuts (I am pretty sure more are missing)
  • replaced very unreliable way of matching against identity aliases by a much more robust way. The basic idea was insane, as mails with mail-addresses that could not be used as regex would cause Beam to fail downloading this and any other mail from that specific account, doh!
  • minor bugfix related to case-insensitivity of IMAP server responses
  • fixed bug with SMTP not working when the user requests no authentication at all.
  • adjusted POP3 and IMAP along the same lines, i.e. to work without authentication (although it is much more unlikely that this will ever be used).
  • added support for setting the List-Id from within a matching filter. This is very handy in order to force mails to have come from specific lists (which sometimes is not the case if people do multiposting and the like).
  • fixed bug with LearnAsSpam/Tofu-control not being usable at all
  • applied several changes towards a more consistent style of GUI text (esp. considering the case style of labels)
  • put the MailConverter-tool (which adds attributes to mail files that have come from non-BFS-partitions) back into a working state
  • fixed problem when adding more than one mail-address via the address-popup (e.g. a group)
  • improved handling of people files that have incomplete/inconsistent data
  • fixed a crashing bug when editing the headers of a mail
  • editing the subject now updates the window title, as it should
  • replying to a mail that has more than one recipient automatically selects reply-to-all (unless reply-to-person has been selected explicitly)
  • fixed endless loop in wrapping code that could be triggered by unusual amounts of whitespace (80 chars) in one line


 
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Recent Talkback comments:
  • The same problem at Haiku 1 Alpha 1 - lelldorin
  • Beam crashing on haiku - Oliver Tappe
  • Ok here the bt output - lelldorin

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