1 W e l c o m e t o S - n a i l
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4 S-nail is a mail processing system with a command syntax reminiscent of
5 ed(1) with lines replaced by messages. It is intended to provide the
6 functionality of the POSIX mailx(1) command and offers (mostly optional)
7 extensions for line editing, IDNA, MIME, S/MIME, SMTP and POP3 (and IMAP).
8 It is usable as a mail batch language.
9 S-nail is a derivative of Heirloom mailx, formerly known as nail.
11 Please refer to the file INSTALL for build, install and codebase state
12 remarks, and to NEWS for release update information.
14 S-nail has a git(1) repository [1] (browsable [2]) and regulary produces
15 release tarballs [3], which can be addressed directly (e.g., via `curl
16 -v -L') [4]. There is a project overview page [5], but more information,
17 inclusive an online version of the manual, is available through the
18 S-nail entry on my private webpage [6]. S-nail now has its own mailing
19 list [7; listinfo: 8], which doesn't require subscription, but moderator
20 approval may hold your message back: please be patient, thank you.
21 And GMANE.org added s-nail-users@ to their archive [9] -- thank you!
23 [1] <git.code.sf.net/p/s-nail/code> (HTTP / GIT)
24 [2] <http://sourceforge.net/p/s-nail/code/>
25 [3] <https://sourceforge.net/projects/s-nail/files/?source=navbar>
26 [4] <https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/s-nail/s-nail-MAJ_MIN_SUB.tar.?z>
27 [5] <https://sourceforge.net/projects/s-nail/>
28 [6] <http://sdaoden.users.sourceforge.net/code.html#s-nail>
29 [7] <s-nail-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
30 [8] <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/s-nail-users/>
31 [9] <news://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.s-nail.user>
33 The S-nail(1) git(1) repository consists of five branches:
35 - master: rooted on top of *heirloom*, this adapts Heirloom mailx(1) as
36 S-nail(1). This is the stable branch that a normal user should track.
37 It is updated once a release is made, and will otherwise only see
38 cherry-picked bugfixes.
40 - next: rooted on top of *master*, this consists of a furious mixture of
41 commits that eventually end up in *master*; it is a snapshot of the
42 *crawl* branch, taken once that seemed to be quite stable.
44 - crawl: because of my brain-damaged way of working this is what *next*
45 ought to be, but since people are using *next* i needed to isolate my
46 grazy-grazy-grazy fixup-cross-your-fingers-now-that commits somewhere
49 - heirloom: a full git(1) cvsimport of the Heirloom mailx(1) cvs(1)
52 - patches: this branch only contains the official bugfix patches.
53 Official in that they have been sent to the ML and have been uploaded
55 This branch was added after the release of S-nail v14.5.2.
57 To clone only the [master] branch, which is what a normal user most
58 likely is interested in, can be accomplished like that:
63 $ git remote add origin -t master git://git.code.sf.net/p/s-nail/code
67 The S-nail(1) heraldic animal `snailmail.jpg' has been found at
68 <http://cdn.whatculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/snailmail.jpg>.
71 AUTHORS (file content)
72 ======================
74 Berkeley Mail was (according to def.h) developed by Kurt Shoens, dated
75 March 25, 1978. I very much regret that it seems impossible to include
76 the people that contributed within the around fifteen years of history
77 of BSD Mail. If you know more about this, contact me.
79 After the 4.4BSD release in 1993, Mail was not further developed
80 officially. The code that Heirloom mailx is based on contains
81 numerous patches from OpenBSD, NetBSD, RedHat and Debian. Namely
82 the NetBSD developer Christos Zoulas wrote much of it.
84 The maintainer and primary developer of Heirloom mailx is
85 Gunnar Ritter. Its development started under the name "nail" in
86 February 2000 and added especially the MIME code, network protocol
87 support, and POSIX conformance improvements. In March 2006, the
88 program has been integrated into the Heirloom project.
90 In 2012 the stale Heirloom mailx(1) was adapted as S-nail(1) by
91 Steffen (Daode) Nurpmeso.
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