PARD: Mail
xbiff-like mail notification utility. Has multiple pixmaps,
session management, and GUI configuration. Can dock into KDE
panel. Can display animated gifs, play system sounds, or run arbitrary shell
command when new mail arrives.
wmmail is a mail-checker like xbiff developed for WindowMaker.
Qmail is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA) which is claimed to be faster than
sendmail and more flexible in user configurations.
Sendmail is a Mail Transport Agent, which is the program that moves mail
from one machine to another. Sendmail implements a general internetwork mail
routing facility, featuring aliasing and forwarding, automatic routing to
network gateways, and flexible configuration.
This is a package that implements an internet message transfer agent called
ZMailer. It is intended for gateways or mail servers or other large site
environments that have extreme demands on the abilities of the mailer. It
was motivated by the problems of the Sendmail design in such situations.
The ZMailer is a high performance multiprocess UNIX system mailer [ a.k.a.
MTA per X.400 parlance ] available free of charge.
Arrow is an elegant, powerful, graphical interface to electronic mail. This
is not just another single window mail reader. Instead, it displays each
mailbox and message in a separate window, thereby allowing one to
simultaneously open as many mailboxes and view and compose as many messages
as one wishes. This paradigm also allows one to drag-and-drop text between
messages and organize ones mail by dragging messages between mailboxes.
MultiMail is a curses-based Blue Wave and QWK packet compatible offline mail
reader for Unix and other systems.
Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating
systems. Some of its features include:
- color support
- message threading
- MIME support (including RFC 2047
support for encoded headers)
- POP3 support
- support for multiple mailbox
formats (mbox, MMDF, MH, maildir)
- highly customizable, including key
bindings
- searches using regular expression
- Delivery Status
Notification (DSN) support
- PGP/MIME (RFC2015) support
- postpone message
composition for later recall
- include attachments from the command line
when composing
- reply to or forward multiple messages at once
- mailrc
style configuration files
- easy to install (uses GNU autoconf)
- small
and efficient
This simple Perl script will individually read the headers of messages on a
POP3 account and then prompt you to read, save, or delete the message.
This works great for slow connections.
You can selectively read your email directly from the POP3 server without
having to download all the huge files waiting for you. Also allows you to
selectively delete message from the server while saving others so that they
can later be downloaded from another place (read and delete from work then
download the important ones later from home).
TkRat is a graphical Mail User Agent (MUA) which handles MIME. It is mainly
written in C but the user interface is done in tcl/tk. The following is a
non exhaustive list of the capabilities:
- Multilingual interface
- Currently English, Swedish and Italian are
supported but it is not hard to add more languages.
- MIME support
-
Understands MIME both in bodies and headers.
- Composing
- Messages are
composed with the built in editor (tk's text widget plus many extensions) or
an external editor of your choice. You can attach files to your message.
- Message database
- Messages can be inserted in a database. When
inserting you add keywords, expiration time and what to do when the
expiration time is reached. Internally the messages are stored as flat
text-files.
- Virtual folders
- A virtual folder is a name that has been
set on an ordinary folder (mbox, mh, IMAP or POP) or a database search
expression. The user can define a menu structure which holds all the virtual
folders and can then move messages to a folder or open a folder via the
menu.
- Message hold
- You can suspend the composing of a message by
putting the message in the hold. The composing can then be continued at a
later time. You can stop the program in the meantime. Multiple messages can
be in the hold at the same time.
- Watcher
- When the program is iconified
it checks the current mailbox regularly. If a new message arrives a small
window with a list of all messages (or only the new ones) in the mailbox is
opened. The user can then either press the right mouse button in this window
to make it go away and continue watching for new messages. Or press the left
button to make the watcher window go away and the main window to deiconify
- Interface to the rest of the mail world
- The program currently
understands unix mailboxes, POP, IMAP and mh folders. Messages are sent via
SMTP or any user configured program (for example sendmail).
- Supports
Delivery Status Notifications
- TkRat supports the DSN standard. This lets
you see if your message has arrived safely at the destination. This requires
an MTA that handles the DSN ESMTP extension.
- Supports PGP/MIME
-
Generates PGP/MIME messages. There is also support for receiving old style
PGP messages.
XCmail is a MIME, POP3 and PGP capable mailtool for X11 using the Xclasses
layout library. XCmail was designed completely object orientated and by this
may be improved easily.
The main purpose of XCmail is to read and write mails which may have any
kind of data added (attached). For this XCmail can handle MIME types and has
so called helpers to show different types. And XCmail offers encoders which
encode and decode binary data into ASCII to allow the transport as mail over
the Internet.
AMaViS (A Mail Virus Scanner) scans e-mail attachments for viruses using
third-party virus scanners available for UNIX environments. It resides on a
UNIX (Linux) machine and looks through the attached files arriving via
e-mail, generates reports when a virus is found and sets the delivery on
hold.
System wide anti-spam mailer filter that wraps around existing mailer and
rejects spam based on chosen rules.
Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mail
retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP
links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports every remote-mail
protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all
flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN. It can even support IPv6 and IPSEC.
Fetchmail retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it via SMTP,
so it can then be be read by normal mail user agents such as elm(1) or
Mail(1). It allows all your system MTA's filtering, forwarding, and aliasing
facilities to work just as they would on normal mail.
Fetchmail offers better security than any other Unix remote-mail client. It
supports APOP, KPOP, OTP, Compuserve RPA, and IMAP RFC1731 encrypted
authentication methods to avoid sending passwords en clair.
Fetchmail can be used as a POP/IMAP-to-SMTP gateway for an entire DNS
domain, collecting mail from a single drop box on an ISP and SMTP-forwarding
it based on header addresses. (We don't really recommend this, though, as it
may lose important envelope-header information. ETRN or a UUCP connection is
better.)
Fetchmail can be started automatically and silently as a system daemon at
boot time. When running in this mode with a short poll interval, it is
pretty hard for anyone to tell that the incoming mail link is not a
full-time "push" connection.
Fetchmail is easy to configure, fast, and lightweight. It packs all its
features in less than 90K of core on a Pentium under Linux.
A lot of unsolicited email goes unreported because tracing the origins of a
possibly forged mail and finding the right people to report to, is
complicated and time-consuming. Ricochet, a smart net agent, automates this
process. It traces the names and addresses of the systems where the spam
originated from along with the servers that provide domain name resolution
services to these systems (in most cases their ISPs). Then it
collects/generates a list of email addresses of tech/billing/admin/abuse
contacts of these system and mails them a complaint and a copy of the spam.
© 1999 by Stefan Hornburg
<racke@linuxia.de>
Last modified 03. June 1999