Hypermail is a
free
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* Emancipate, to procur ...
program for creating
email
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archives, in the form of cross-referenced
HTML
The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScri ...
documents. It takes a file in
Unix
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mbox
Mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of email messages. It was first implemented in Research Unix, Fifth Edition Unix.
All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text ...
format and generates an HTML archive, complete with an index and various sorting options. It is commonly used for creating
mailing list archive
A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. The term is often extended to include the people subscribed to such a list, so the group of subscribers is re ...
s, but it can archive any collection of emails. Originally written in 1994 by
Tom Gruber
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using
Common Lisp
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,
it was rewritten in
C by
Kevin Hughes for its initial public release in 1994.
The mbox format is used by several
email client
An email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email.
A web application which provides message management, composition, and reception functio ...
s on various platforms, including most
Unix
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and
Linux
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ones. Popular examples of email clients that use the mbox format (and as such are compatible with Hypermail) include
Kmail
Kontact is a personal information manager and groupware software suite developed by KDE. It supports calendars, contacts, notes, to-do lists, news, and email. It offers a number of inter-changeable graphical UIs (KMail, KAddressBook, Akregator, ...
,
pine
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and
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source cross-platform email client, personal information manager, news client, RSS and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation and operated by subsidiary MZLA Technologies Corporation. The project s ...
.
Hypermail is operated at the
command-line
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. It was originally intended for use in
Unix-like
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platforms such as Linux. However, it is also possible to use the program in
Microsoft Windows
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by compiling it with
MinGW
MinGW ("Minimalist GNU for Windows"), formerly mingw32, is a free and open source software development environment to create Microsoft Windows applications.
MinGW includes a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Binutils for Windows ( ...
, or by using the
Cygwin
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The Cygwin in ...
library.
Building for Windows
It is possible to
compile
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Hypermail as a fully
native
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People
* Jus soli, citizenship by right of birth
* Indigenous peoples, peoples with a set of specific rights based on their historical ties to a particular territory
** Native Americans (disambiguation)
In arts and entert ...
Windows program by using MinGW. However, certain modifications need to be made to the program's source code
Building Hypermail for Windows using MinGW by Israel G. Lugo, provides a patch to apply these modifications, as well as step by step instructions on how to accomplish the whole process and some usage examples.
Instructions are also available for creating the executable using Cygwin
by Bob Crispen, guides the user through the steps required, and offers a usage example as well.
See also
*
Pipermail
References
External links
Hypermail's homepageHypermail's old homepage(archived June 2005)
* {{github, hypermail-project/hypermail
Free email software