- Mahogany (e-mail client)
Mahogany is an
open source cross-platforme-mail and news client. It is available for X11/Unix and MS Win32 platforms, supporting a wide range of protocols and standards, including SMTP, POP3, IMAP, NNTP (including SSL support for all of them) and fullMIME support. The current official release version is 0.67 (published in August 2006) [ [http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/status.html Development Status] ] .Mahogany is developed by The Mahogany Development Team (Founding members Karsten Ballüder and Vadim Zeitlin). It is licensed under a special Mahogany ``Artistic License" similar to the Perl Artistic License [ [http://www.linux-magazin.de/heft_abo/ausgaben/2002/04/wat_mutt_dat_mutt Article on Linux-Magazin.de] ] but the developers also allow licensing the program under GNU GPL license [ [http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/copyright.html Copyright] ] .
The program features an optional embedded Python interpreter. Python scripts have full access to all internal Mahogany data structures and objects and can be used to extend Mahogany.
External links
* [http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/index.html Mahogany site at sourceforge]
* [http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/1978/4/ Article on linuxplanet.com]
* [http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/E-mail/E-mail-Clients/Mahogany-Mail.shtml Download and short description at softpedia]References
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