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Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements

From Andrew Wood <andrewjameswood@ymail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements
Date 2018-10-25 22:30 +0200
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https://github.com/bluedalmatian/mailmistress


On 25/10/2018 21:19, Andrew Wood wrote:
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> On 24/10/2018 19:26, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
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>> �
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>> I tried looking up Haiku, and I got a little mixed up
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> Haiku is an open source reimplementation of the BeOS, its Unix like, 
> it has a bash command line but also its own built in GUI (not X based).
> You can find out more at www.haiku-os.org and download an ISO of the 
> Beta 1 release which will run on most PC hardware or under QEMU etc.
>
>> �
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>> Do you have any idea how hard it might be to convert to use on Linux? 
>> Is the program written in C? Was it, by any chance, compiled with GCC?
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>> �
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>> Any idea how hard it would be to convert to, for example, use just an 
>> ASCII text file as the list of subscribers?
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>> �
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>> And, I guess it talks to an ISP -- POP3 in and SMTP out?
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> The BeOS/Haiku API is C++ based and that is what MailMistress is 
> written in yes its compiled by GCC and has a Makefile. Due to its 
> heavy use of the Be API and the fact that it relies on the Be/Haiku 
> built in MUA it wouldnt be very feasible to port it to Linux.
>
> I chose Haiku becuase the MUA is unique - it doesnt have a typcial GUI 
> it simply periodically downloads mail from an IMAP/POP server into a 
> folder. MailMistress gets notified when the contents of this folder is 
> updated, processes the incoming message and sends it out via the Haiku 
> MUA which talks SMTP to the MTA, hence it works behind NAT etc.
> If you're interested in playing about with it the best thing to do 
> would be to read the Readme file in the Github repository and see if 
> it sounds suitable.
>
> A text file could be used for the recipient addresses yes you would 
> just need to write a program in any language you want to read the 
> addresses from that text file and pass them to MailMistress as per the 
> instructions in the readme - see section 5 'Authentication Program 
> Plug in Dont mind assisting you with trying it out if you need help.

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Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-23 16:00 +0200
  Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-10-23 16:40 +0200
  Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2018-10-23 16:50 +0200
  Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2018-10-23 17:20 +0200
    Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-24 02:20 +0200
      Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2018-10-24 06:40 +0200
        Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-24 12:50 +0200
          Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2018-10-24 18:50 +0200
            Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-10-24 19:00 +0200
              Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2018-10-24 19:10 +0200
              Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-10-24 20:10 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-10-25 02:40 +0200
            Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-24 19:50 +0200
              Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-10-24 20:10 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-24 20:40 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2018-10-24 21:10 +0200
            Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Andrew Wood <andrewjameswood@ymail.com> - 2018-10-24 20:00 +0200
              Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-24 20:30 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Andrew Wood <andrewjameswood@ymail.com> - 2018-10-25 22:20 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Andrew Wood <andrewjameswood@ymail.com> - 2018-10-25 22:30 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-25 22:40 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-10-30 18:30 +0100
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-30 18:40 +0100
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-30 20:10 +0100
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-30 20:30 +0100
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-10-30 20:40 +0100
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-10-30 20:30 +0100
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-10-30 22:00 +0100
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-10-31 00:20 +0100
            Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-10-24 20:10 +0200
              Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2018-10-24 21:20 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-10-24 23:00 +0200
                Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-24 23:10 +0200
  Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-10-23 18:00 +0200
    Re: Advice on mailing list software -- special requirements rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-24 16:00 +0200

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