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Published by Oliver Tappe
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February 19th, 2002
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March 27th, 2008
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8,815 total; 3 recently |
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44,506 total |
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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.
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version 1.1.2 - GPL |
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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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Intel Version - requires R5 (1.55 MB) |
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Intel Version - requires R5 (1.55 MB) |
45 downloads |
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PowerPC Version - requires R5 (962 KB) |
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version 1.1.2 - GPL |
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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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Intel Version - requires R5 (2.47 MB) |
50 downloads |
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Intel Version - requires R5 (2.47 MB) |
47 downloads |
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PowerPC Version - requires R5 (1.67 MB) |
13 downloads |
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