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- About BoboMail
- BoboMail is a so called webmail application, which provides mail access
- through a web interface.
- It is distributed under the GNU GPL. See COPYING in the package
- or go to http://www.gnu.org for details.
- Current features:
- * read, write, reply, forward and delete messages
- * send and receive attachments
- * decodes quoted-printable, base64 and uuencoded
- * handles HTML-mails properly (with inline images!)
- * does not need Javascript
- * direct support for the following MIME types:
- message/rfc822, message/delivery-status, multipart/alternative,
- multipart/mixed, multipart/report, multipart/related,
- text/plain, text/html, text/x-vcard, image/jpeg,
- image/png, image/x-xpixmap, image/gif
- * works with POP3-servers or spool-files (no need for IMAP4)
- * easy to modify and customize through HTML-templates
- * modular design provides easy interface for other authentication
- methods and mail protocols
- * provides optionally its own fast multithreading webserver (BoboMailHTTPD)
- * multi-lingual support (i18n) - currently English and German
- * and it's 100% Python :-)
- More stuff is currently in development. When you look at the source
- you will find some disabled functionality which is untested or only
- partially working. The same applies to the html templates.
- The first version of BoboMail was used for about a year and a half in the
- intranet of the Computer Club Ostfriesland (one of Germany's largest computer
- clubs, see http://www.cco-ev.de if you understand German). I wrote my own
- web mailer, because at that time only some Perl scripts were available,
- which were not easy to customize (e.g. German interface).
- BTW: The name comes from Bobo - the former name of ZPublisher (the cgi
- framework I use). If you have a better/cooler idea for a name let me know!
- I hope you will find BoboMail usefull. Please send complaints (e.g. spelling
- mistakes), criticism, security advices, suggestions, praises and everything
- else to ich@henning-schroeder.de or visit me (Henning) on my personal webpage
- at http://www.henning-schroeder.de/en
- Important acknowledgement:
- This product includes software developed by Digital Creations
- for use in the Z Object Publishing Environment (htt://www.zope.org).
- The BoboMail distribution contains Zope's ZPublisher and ZTemplates. These
- compoments underly the Zope Public License (ZPL). They are packages with
- BoboMail for easier installation.
- The only thing which really disturbs me is the (lack of) speed :-( My MIME
- parser works fine but it needs a lot of time for large mailboxes and large
- messages. So if you have some suggestions how to fix this *please* mail me.
- I thought about using SWIG (http://www.swig.org) to create a Python-C module
- (e.g. the c-client library). If anyone has experience with SWIG please help!