blueMail is a multi-format offline mail reader for Unix, DOS, Win32, and other systems.
It supports the Blue Wave, QWK, QWKE, SOUP, OMEN and Hippo packet formats, the Hudson and BBBS Message Bases, Unix (mbox) mail, Eudora and is designed to be a reasonable alternative to the Blue Wave mail reader. It has a full screen, colored user interface built with the curses library.
blueMail is free, "open source" software, provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, distributed under the GNU General Public License. Its current maintainer is Ingo Brueckl ib@wupperonline.de and will not accept liability resulting from your use or inability to use blueMail.
You can get the latest version from
http://home.wtal.de/ib/bluemail
- Unix-compatible (POSIX) system, DOS with DJGPP, Windows with MinGW or Cygwin, or OS/2 with EMX
- curses -- tested with ncurses and PDCurses
- gcc (g++) -- may work with other C++ compilers, not tested
- InfoZip, and/or other compressing archivers
- GNU make may be required on some systems
- PMODE/DJ (by Thomas Pytel & Matthias Grimrath) and UPX (by Markus Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar) are recommended (and used) for the DOS binaries
You can find a list of new features and improvements in the history file together with a list of new options for the configuration file since version 0.01.
See INSTALL for the installation procedure, and the man page (bmail.1, or bmail.txt for DOS, Windows or OS/2) for information on usage.
blueMail will run on multiple platforms, like
MSDOS 6.22 (DJGPP, PDCurses) Linux 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6 (gcc, egcs, ncurses, PDCurses aka XCurses) Windows 9x/NT/XP/2000 (MinGW or Cygwin, PDCurses)
and - untested -
OS/2 (emx, PDCurses) NetBSD (ncurses) Solaris (curses)
(Please understand that it is impossible to continuously test blueMail on all platforms, so there may be bugs on platforms other than my developing platform DOS, but I'll try to fix all bugs I'll be told.)
If you get it running on a dissimilar system, please let me know (along with any necessary patches).