ANNOUNCE: GNUMail.app 1.0.1

[Ludovic Marcotte]

Hi,

After weeks of development, I'm glad to announce the release
of GNUMail.app 1.0.1.

GNUMail.app is a free, fully-featured mail application distributed
under the GPLv2. GNUMail.app works well under both
GNUstep (http://www.gnustep.org) and Apple Mac OS X.

Here's a list of what has changed since the last release of 
GNUMail.app:

o the size of the folder and the number of messages/unread messages
  are now shown in the Mailbox Manager;
o you can now define more than one account per server for POP3 or IMAP;
o you can now define a different signature for each personal profile
  you have;
o you can now search in the content of messages;
o drag and drop support to copy/move messages between folders;
o cut, copy, and paste support to copy/move messages between folders 
  and to manipulate addresses in the Address Book; 
o lots of new icons, to make the UI much more appealing;
o it's now possible to automatically verify for new messages for 
  specified POP3 accounts when GNUMail.app launches;
o it's now possible to specify filters for outgoing mails and also
  apply filters directly to a messages selection;
o it's now possible to define outgoing filters (for messages being
  sent);
o added tab-completion for addresses defined in the Address Book
  when composing a new message;
o it's now possible to specify which charset you want to use when
  sending a message (if you don't want to use the 'detected' one) and
  it's now possible to force one to be used when viewing a mail;
o added a "Welcome" message that is shown to new users when GNUMail.app
  is first started;
o modified the colors used for filters so that they are way less abrasive
  for your eyes;
o the columns's size for the Mail Window and Mailbox Manager
  tableview/outlineview are now saved and restored when GNUMail.app
  is started. The same thing has been done for all "windows" of the
  application;
o refactored a lot of code, fixed bugs, improved the performance
  and the stability of the application;
o and way more!


You can see a screenshot of GNUMail.app under GNUstep here:

http://www.collaboration-world.com/gnumail.data/screenshots/v1.0.1/GNUMail-1.0.1.png

and under Apple Mac OS X here:

http://www.collaboration-world.com/gnumail.data/screenshots/v1.0.1/GNUMail-OSX-1.0.1.jpg


In order to compile GNUMail.app, you need to get and install
Pantomime first. You can get it here:

http://www.collaboration-world.com/pantomime

You can get GNUMail.app 1.0.1 sources and the binary version 
(including Pantomime) for Apple Mac OS X here:

http://www.collaboration-world.com/gnumail

If you want to compile yourself GNUMail.app, see the docs/README file.
It explains in details how to compile it under GNUstep and Apple Mac OS X.

This released has been tested on Apple Mac OS X 10.1.3/10.1.4 and
also GNUstep make 1.3.0, base 1.3.0, gui 0.7.6 and xgps 0.7.6. There are
some small issues with GNUstep that are now solved in the CVS version of
GNUstep (and will be included in the next release of GNUstep, of course).

Here's a list of what needs to be improved for the next release:

o PGP/GPG support. I've been saying this for months now. A skeleton
  of the bundle was added but it needs to be finished;
o "Do .." action in Filtering bundle;
o Messages threading;
o Possibility of reusing the same MailWindow when opening
  a new mailbox;
o New features and more optimizations.


I would like to thank the following people who helped me getting
this release done by sending me bug fixes, patches and more:

Dale Amon, Martin Brecher, Rob Burns, Erik Dalen, Adam Fedor, Ian Jones, 
Matthias Klose, Nicola Pero, Quique, Vincent Ricard, Pierre-Yves Rivaille, 
Nicolas Roard, Georges Tarbouriech, Fabien Vallon, Chris B. Vetter 
and especially Francis Lachapelle.


Again, comments, feature requests, suggestions or patches are always 
very welcomed!

Thanks a lot,
                Ludovic

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