Hypermail is a free program for creating

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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 JavaS ...

documents. It takes a file in

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format and generates an HTML archive, complete with an index and various sorting options. It is commonly used for creating

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s, but it can archive any collection of emails. Originally written in 1994 by Tom Gruber using

Common Lisp Common Lisp (CL) is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in ANSI standard document ''ANSI INCITS 226-1994 (S20018)'' (formerly ''X3.226-1994 (R1999)''). The Common Lisp HyperSpec, a hyperlinked HTML version, has been derived fr ...

, it was rewritten in C by Kevin Hughes for its initial public release in 1994. The mbox format is used by several

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s on various platforms, including most

and

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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, ...

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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 projec ...

. Hypermail is operated at the

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. It was originally intended for use in

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platforms such as Linux. However, it is also possible to use the program in

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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

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library.

Building for Windows

It is possible to

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Hypermail as a fully

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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.

References

External links

Hypermail's homepage

Hypermail's old homepage
(archived June 2005) * {{github, hypermail-project/hypermail Free email software

Building for Windows

See also

References

External links