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authorgregory guy <[email protected]>2020-09-30 11:03:15 +0200
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Drop automake build support.
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-This program is written by Eggert Ehmke, [email protected].
-It is distributed under the GNU public license. See COPYING for details.
-It is based on the command line tool showmail written by Manfred Haertel,
-Kshowmail is a KDE tool to watch mails on a POP3 server.
-Headers and complete mails can be viewed without loading them to the
-local mail client. Unpleasant mail can be deleted from the server.
-The list of displayed mails can be refreshed via configurable timers.
-Filters can be assigned to mark known spam for deletion.
-Multiple accounts are supported.
-A sound can be played if new mail arrives.
-A command menu allows user configurable commands like fetchmail or sendmail.
-A special command can be defined to send complain mail against spam.
+ kshowmail - an email viewer for TDE.
-The modifications I provided are mainly Qt/KDE stuff to generate a nice
-GUI interface. I am using the great development tool kDevelop V2.1.
-If you find the tool useful, tell me about it. If you find any bugs or
-want some additional features, just give me a hint. As time allows,
-I will try to fix them. If you like to translate the language files,
-I would be very happy.
-With version 0.5 the passwords are stored as scrambled text in the kshowmailrc file.
-This is no absolute protection, but at least the password cannot be read as
-clear text anymore. If you have old rc files with stored passwords, you must reeenter
-them.
+Kshowmail display emails from a POP3 email server without actually
+downloading them.
+The headers or the complete emails can be viewed and unwanted emails can
+be deleted. An initial and an interval timer can be set to check the
+emails periodical.
-With version 2.2.0 large parts of the configuration are stored in the kshowmail.xml file,
-together with already loaded headers. The improves the speed of refresh a lot, as only
-new headers are loaded again. However, this concept is again imcompatible with the old
-rc file. You have to create your accounts again.
-Installation: see the INSTALL file and check the following:
-make sure the environment variables TDEDIR, TQTDIR and PATH contain the correct values.
-For SuSE these are:
-TDEDIR=/opt/kde3
-TQTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3
-PATH=$TDEDIR/bin:$TQTDIR/bin:...
-If not already installed, you need the kde network include files. Get the
-tdenetwork-devel and tdepim-devel rpm packages or the source files.
-Known bugs:
-The connection to the pop3 server fails, if there is a null password.
-Sound gets interrupted sometimes.
+FEATURES:
+=========
-Fixed bugs:
-the messages are sorted in a wrong sequence; fixed in 0.2
-the optiondelete.xpm file is not installed via tgz; fixed in 0.2
-some messages are not translated into other languages; fixed in 0.3
-segfaults when working on empty config list; fixed in 0.3
-on some servers the service is called pop-3. fixed in 0.4 by connect via port 110
-the status line is only updated after transfer. fixed in 0.5 by changed event handling
-during dialogs or message boxes conflicting timers fixed in 0.5
-password scrambling algorithm problem fixed in 0.5.1
-Endless loop if long messages are displayed fixed in 0.5.2
-kshowmail locks if several messages are shown in sequence fixed in 0.5.2
-Sometimes the toolbar/statusbar get lost fixed in 2.2.0
-If the number of UIDL's in the cache exceedes 200, fixed in 2.2.0; no uidl cache anymore
-old mail may be shown as new, if still on the server. we use xml file now
-the uidl0 is not found in the cache, even if it exists
-If the first account has no new messages, and the
-second account can't get connection,
-the list is not refreshed. fixed in 2.2.1
-Crash when KDE shutdown fixed in 2.2.2
-The sorting of messages by other columns (size)
-does not work. (535377) fixed in 3.0.0
-The sorting by message numbers does not work correctly fixed in 3.0.1
-in case of multiple accounts
-The AlertDialog::signalOk does not work. (514243) fixed in 3.0.1, was KDE2 bug
-Crash if all messages of last account are deleted fixed in 3.0.1, never seen again
-Missing header fields if transfer interrupted (542602) fixed in 3.0.1
-Crash when disabling account (559122) fixed in 3.0.1
-Wrong account activated if sorted backward (562903) fixed in 3.0.2
+* supports multiple accounts.
+* timers
+* filters for spam
+* sounds can be played if new email arrives
+* a command menu allows commands like fetchmail or sendmail
+* a command can be defined to send complain email against spam
-Acknowledgements:
-Since I started the kshowmail development, I received lots of feedback and constructive
-critics from all over the world. I appreciate this very much and want to say "thank you"
-to all of you. In particular:
-Manfred Haertel <[email protected]> who wrote the original command line version.
-Espen Sand <[email protected]> who provided the timers and some keyboard shortcuts.
-Nicolas Vignal <[email protected]> who provided RPM's for RedHat,
- and the french translation.
-Serge Parmentier <[email protected]>� who updated the french translation
-Edgardo Garc�a <[email protected]> who provided the spanish translation
-Stephan Giesler <[email protected]> who updated the spanish translation and
- did some testing.
-Mattias Newzella <[email protected]> who provided the swedish translation
-Aharon Schkolnik <[email protected]>, who did a lot of testing and created a lot of
-Matthias Doell <[email protected]>, ideas that are now part of kshowmail.
-Thomas Watz <[email protected]>
-Maic Szotek <[email protected]> who provided the nice new icons for the
- 3.x.x version.
-Gustavo Zamorano S. <[email protected]> who suggested the "Reply" feature and tested
- some scripts.
-Sandor Laza <[email protected]> who provided the hungarian translation.
-Gabriele Postorino <[email protected]> who provided the italian translation.
-Robert Kratky <[email protected]> who provided the czech translation.
-Have a lot of fun! ;-)
+
+CONTRIBUTING
+==============
+
+If you wish to contribute to kshowmail, you might do so:
+
+- TDE Gitea Workspace (TGW) collaboration tool.
+ https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea
+
+- TDE Weblate Translation Workspace (TWTW) collaboration tool.
+ https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate