skoenlapper v0.3.2 released! (and how to use it)
I'd like to take this time to introduce you to the first
pre-release of the skoenlapper butterfly mail client that has been
released! It implements all the needed basic features you
would need to test out the important parts of butterfly, this
includes fetching folders, fetching mail, sending mail and reading
mail. The other features yet to be added are management of the
mailbox itself in terms of moving mail, deleting mail and moving
and deleting folders.
You can download the latest release from the skoenlapper homepage and you should make
sure to download the JSON file too.
The usage is pretty simple as shown on the homepage but I will
include it below:
skoenlapper v0.3.2
help
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new -t [address, address, ...] -s [subject] -c [config file
path]
Send a new mail
view -m [mailPath, maiPath, ...] -c [config file
path]
View a mail message
register -u [username] -p [password] -s
[address:port]
Register on the server
daemon -c
[configFile]
Run a mail fetcher that cycles every 5 seconds
With this you will understand how one uses it from the
command-line. When making new mail one can enter as many lines as
they want in their TTY and until EOF is retrieved/signaled (when
reading from the TTY via Ctrl+D on empty TTY buffer) - same
applies to when you pipe something in but I assume most people
will not be doing that and instead will by using skoenlapper in a
way similar to the mail
command.
You will also want to make sure you have a running butterfly mail
server and also have set the parameters such as the server address
and port pair in the skoenlapper's JSON configuration file. You
will then want to register with the server (how to do that is
shown above) and then you can start sending and receiving mail.
The former done with the new
command and the
latter done with the daemon
command (and by
then reading the mail with the view
command
and pointing it to a mail message in the mailbox somewhere in the
mailDirectory specified in the JSON file (like
<mailDirectory>/Inbox).
Want to know how to run your own mail server though? Check out this post.