Subj : This is a test.
To   : Niklas Lindholm
From : Ingo Juergensmann
Date : Sat Sep 09 2017 00:33:50

   Hello Niklas!

08 Sep 17 11:05, you wrote to me:

 IJ>> I still hope that Mirko Viviani (GMS-Mailer) and Pino Aliberti
 IJ>> (MailManager) will release their source code and someone ports it
 IJ>> to Linux and/or AmigaOS4.1 and give it some updates. ;)
 NL> That's a lot of things to hope for. :-)

Well, not that much! I guess many original authors would be willing to release
their 10-20 year old source code of their little tool or program as GPL or
public domain.
The problem is to find them under their current mailaddress and approach them
in a polite and convincing way. There seems to be some other guy(s) that are
doing exactly this: @Amigasourcecodepress on Twitter.

 NL> The source to CrashMail is
 NL> available on GitHub even though it's not actively developed. The
 NL> author is alive though and accepted a pull request for a bug I fixed a
 NL> while ago.

Having the crashmail source on github is excellent. OTOH, crashmail is already
packaged in Debian, so being an Open Source project is a requirement to get
released with Debian. ;)
Nevertheless a good decision anyways :)

 NL> I run CrashMail and Binkp on Linux on the same machine as I run the
 NL> Amiga Emulator where NiKom (the BBS and Fido reader) runs. So the
 NL> Amiga can access the Fido message database on the same filesystem as
 NL> everything else.

Well, I considered using crashmail as well and yes, the background of being
originally an Amiga program was one of my main considerations about it.
Unfortunately I would have needed other tools that are currently not packaged
for Debian. Husky OTOH is packaged for Debian by Philipp Giebel, so I went that
 road.

Ingo


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