Hello Niklas!
08 Sep 17 11:05, you wrote to me:
I still hope that Mirko Viviani (GMS-Mailer) and Pino Aliberti
(MailManager) will release their source code and someone ports it
to Linux and/or AmigaOS4.1 and give it some updates. ;)
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.
The source to CrashMail is
available on GitHub even though it's not actively developed. The
author is alive though and accepted a pull request for a bug I fixed a 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 :)
I run CrashMail and Binkp on Linux on the same machine as I run the
Amiga Emulator where NiKom (the BBS and Fido reader) runs. So the
Amiga can access the Fido message database on the same filesystem as 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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