Gotmail 0.8.8 Released

Updated March 5, 2006 @ 8:50 pm

The Gotmail project, a perl script which downloads mail from hotmail.com without user interaction, released version 0.8.8 today. This is a simple maintenance release with only a few basic bug fixes applied including better dealing with spaces in folder names and extra lines in config files.

While normally the project releases versions with more changes, the development community decided that releasing with some bug fixes is a priority. This is especially true now that the program, Gotmail, already accomplishes its primary goal of “downloading mail from hotmail.com.”

In the future, the Gotmail Project looks to add support for the new Hotmail beta which uses AJAX technology and a refined interface to provide a better user experience. The project seeks developers who might be interested in submitting code to become compatible with this new service.

Another feature that is desired by the development community is integration with other applications, such as Novell’s Evolution e-mail client (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution). Already included in this release is a simple script for transporting one’s hotmail into evolution. What would make for a strong feature is to develop a plugin which directly uses gotmail to check one’s hotmail account from within Evolution.

The Gotmail development community thrives off of users of the script, and ask for people to visit http://gotmail.sf.net/ to test out the latest version, file bug reports, and join the development process.

Itemized list of major changes:

Applied patch from jdanwhite to help with spaces in folder names.
Fixed bug in allowing empty lines in config files
Include “gotmail4evolution” script which transports one’s hotmail mail to a folder in evolution.

Packages ready for download:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gotmail/gotmail-0.8.8-1.noarch.rpm?download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gotmail/gotmail-0.8.8-1.src.rpm?download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gotmail/gotmail-0.8.8.tar.gz?download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gotmail/gotmail-0.8.8.zip?download

http://gotmail.sf.net/

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Gotmail 0.8.7.1 Released!

Updated December 11, 2005 @ 2:42 pm

The Gotmail project, a perl script which downloads mail
from hotmail.com without user interaction, released version 0.8.7.1 today.

The primary feature of this release is the a rewrite of the debug output and
compliance of the script with common Unix-style applications where options
from the commandline do one thing well. Because of these changes, the
community asks for people to please test this new script heavier than normal,
and most definitely before its put into heavy use.

The Gotmail development community thrives off of users of the script, and ask
for people to visit http://gotmail.sf.net/ to test out the latest version,
file bug reports, and join the development process.

Itemized list of major changes:

Makefile simplified
Several bugs squished from the bug tracker
Output of usage info is simplified
Show sender and subject of deleted spam RFE implemented
Passwords are no longer included in debug files
System for debug output is completely redone to be quieter and have multiple levels of output.
No logfile output anymore (use standard out now)
Some output makes only sense interactively (detected and filtered)
Some output makes only sense when running in debug mode
Verbosity level filtering
Errors go to stderr
Added warning for the “Could not parse redirect location” warning which
is a problem with input users are entering in their usage of gotmail.
Further clean-up in the codebase for future localization support
Inclusion of basic script for transporting hotmail emails to evolution
Fixed bug with –folder-directory not putting directory separator