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odP    your humble and faithful electronic postman

A commandline tool to easily and privately handle your e-mail

Updates on: http://dyne.org/software/jaro-mail

INTRODUCTION

Jaro Mail is an integrated suite of interoperable tools for GNU/Linux and Apple/OSX to manage e-mail communication in a private and efficient way, without relying too much on on-line services, in fact encouraging users to store e-mail locally.

Rather than reinventing the wheel, Jaro Mail reuses some existing free and open source tools working since more than 10 years, generating their configurations and setting up integrations automatically.

A round-up on Jaro Mail features follows:

• Minimalistic and efficient interface with message threading
• Targets intensive usage of e-mails and mailinglists
• Stores e-mails locally in a reliable format (maildir)
• Integrates whitelisting and blacklisting, local and remote
• Can do search and backup by advanced expressions
• Automatically generates filter rules (sieve)
• Imports and exports VCard contacts to addressbook
• Computes and shows statistics on mail traffic
• Encrypted password storage using OS native keyrings
• Advanced maildir tools (merge, backup, address extraction)
• Defers connections for off-line operations
• Checks SSL/TLS certificates when fetching and sending mails
• Supports strong encryption messaging (GnuPG)
• Can send anonymous emails (Mixmaster)
• Many languages! so exotic! such UTF-8!
• Multi platform: GNU/Linux/BSD, Apple/OSX
• Old school, used by its author for the past 10 years

Build

Make sure you have installed the following dependencies on your operating system, they should be named in a similar way across distributions, here below the names of the packages are referring to those found in Devuan/Debian.

To build:

libglib2.0-dev libgnome-keyring-dev libxapian-dev libgmime-2.6-dev libtalloc-dev zlib1g-dev libgpgme11-dev

To run:

fetchmail msmtp neomutt notmuch pinentry-curses abook wipe

INSTALL

If building and installing from Git source, please run:

git submodule update --init --recursive

to initialize and clone the submodules used as part of Jaro Mail's tree.

Then compile and install all jaromail in a self-contained directory with one command:

   PREFIX=$HOME/Postbox make install

This will create the directory Postbox in your home directory and install Jaro Mail inside it, with the jaro executable in Postbox/bin.

When Jaro Mail is installed system-wide, the JAROMAILDIR environmental variable can be changed to point to where all emails will be stored, by default it is $HOME/Mail.

Keep in mind you need to read the Manual: this software is not graphical, it is not meant to be intuitive, does not contains eyecandies (except for stats on mail traffic). Jaro Mail is operated via Terminal, configured in plain text and overall made by geeks for geeks.

Apple/OSX Jaro Mail 3q.0 has not yet been updated to Apple/OSX. With 2.0 users can simply drag Jaro Mail into /Applications When started Jaro Mail opens a Terminal window preconfigured with its environment, to activate it for any terminal add this to ~/.profile:

export PATH=/Applications/JaroMail.app/Contents/Resources/jaro/bin:$PATH

USAGE MANUAL

For a brief overview see the commandline help:

 jaro -h

When in doubt, make sure you read the User's Manual, it is important.

Download the PDF: https://files.dyne.org/jaromail/jaromail-manual.pdf

Or browse online the latest version: https://github.com/dyne/JaroMail/blob/master/doc/jaromail-manual.org

It is recommended that you read the user manual: you won’t get far unless you know what you are doing. Even for experienced Mutt users: keys will be familiar, but there are things to learn in the manual on how Jaro Mail redesigns the e-mail workflow for instance with whitelisting and remote sieve folders.

DEVELOPERS

All revisioned in Git, see: https://github.com/dyne/JaroMail

Remember to do git submodules update --init after a fresh clone.

Pull requests and patches welcome, for an overview of current plans see TODO

Our chat channel is #dyne on https://irc.dyne.org

Make sure to idle in that channel, answers take some time to come.

We are all idling artists.

DONATE

Donations are very welcome and well needed.

By donating you will encourage further development.

https://www.dyne.org/donate

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Jaro Mail software and user's manual is conceived, designed and put together with a substantial amount of ZShell scripts and some C code by Denis Roio aka Jaromil.

Jaro Mail would have never been possible without the incredible amount of Love shared by the free and open source community, a more complete list of contributors is included in the user manual in the Acknowledgments section.

Jaro Mail is Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Denis Roio [email protected]

This source code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This source code 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. Please refer to the GNU Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Public License along with this source code; if not, write to: Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.