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The IMAP Mail Buddy
The icons for this application are Copyright(C) by Dean S. Jones,
http://jfa.javalobby.org
Description
I was searching for an easy to use and stable IMAP mail client for our company, but
the mail client, where we end with, isn't really stable. That was the time,
where I decided to try out to program my own one. It's in an early stage, at
the moment, but you might have a look at it...
The goal is to have an eMail-client, which could be used even by small workgroups,
which monitor partly the same mailboxes (e.g. an "info" user for companys etc.).
Therefore, the application must be able to handle concurrent editing of a mailbox.
(Because of that, the application will not be the fastest one! You couldn't have
an imap-folder open in READ_WRITE mode concurrently on several clients. My solution
was to monitor the client over the Folder.getMessageCount method and reopen the
folder in case of changes. If someone has a better idea, don't hesitate to inform
me!)
State
(last update: 2000/11/06)
What is working:
Mailbox handling (add, remove, modify mailbox and settings)
Folder handling (add, remove and rename folder)
show eMails in a selected folder
monitor the INBOX folder for each mailbox for new mails
monitor the selected folder for state changes in mails (SEEN/UNSEEN changes, DELETE/UNDELETE changes)
expunge the marked messages from the folder
open selected mails for read
save attachments (use the right mousebutton in the attachment list)
Updated Mailbox configuration panel. Please reconfigure every Mailbox,
if you are using a version before 21. Oct. 2000
sending mails (separate in case of multiple addresses in the TO/CC/BCC fields, each entry with a semikolon ";"!)
save outgoing mails in a "Sent"-folder on the imap-server
tuned the open-mail-for-read function
started to implement the reply functionality
Next steps are:
forward functionality
ability, to move messages to another folder in the current mailbox
implementing address books
implementing filters for incomming mails, that you can do individual
processing on selected mails...
printing mails
...
Later steps are:
code cleanup
maybe implementing POP3 support
drag'n'drop
and I don't know...
License
The application will be under a BSD style license, check back in a few days to read more...
Credits
I wish to thank the following people for their ideas, help and support of IMB:
Dean S. Jones for his initial icon colection
Michael Westbay for his suggestion, to use the above icon-collection
and his maintenance of the icon-collection pages!
Edgar Ruppenthal for his
support and testing.
Download
If you are interested in the current ugly source-code, please contact
me!
Otherwise, you could download the current "PREVIEW" jar-file.
The current requirements are:
a Java 1.1 VM ('till the moment I implement the drag'n'Drop functionality...)
in case of a Java 1.1 VM, the swing library
the javamail API jar
the java activation framework API jar
and this jar-file
To start the application call it like this:
java -classpath mail.jar:activation.jar:imb.jar imb.Controller
Known configurations are:
FreeBSD, jdk1.1.8, swing-1.1.1, jaf-1.0.1, javamail-1.1.3
WindowsNT, jdk-1.3.0-006, jaf-1.0.1, javamail-1.1.3
Due to a bug in the FileChooser class of the JDK's < 1.3.0, you can
only add 1 attachment at a time to a mail. You can of course create mails
with several
attachments, but only add one after the other
!!! The blackdown linux jdk 1.2.2 RC4 will not work under FreeBSD !!!
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