Free norman mailer software for linux

Svnmailer is a tool to post subversion repository commit information by mail, news or XML (to a CIA tracker).
The svnmailer package is derived from the script mailer.py distributed with subversion. Svnmailer arose from the idea to add some features to the original mailer script.
But Ive found the script not as extensible as it could be, so the svnmailer package was redeveloped from scratch with clearer design and extensibility in mind.
Now there are additional features like property diffs, MIME encoding, configurable handling of huge mails and news postings, subject templates, consistent unicode handling and even a better extensible command line.
Enhancements:
- This release enables the possibility to send mails as BCC and allows cia_rpc_server to be configured per notification group.

Swift is a fully OOP Library for sending e-mails from PHP websites and applications. Swift Mailer does not rely on PHPs native mail() function which is known for using high server resources when sending multiple emails. Instead, Swift communicates directly with an SMTP server or a MTA binary to send mail quickly and efficiently.
Swift is comparable to PHPMailer except that it implements an extremely flexible and innovative plugin system meaning you can get the most out of sending emails from your PHP applications. The interface for Swift is both tighter and more intuitive.
I started developing Swift because I moderate a popular PHP forum and its clear from some of the posts we see that PHPs native mail() function just doesnt quite cut it among developers unless you know a lot about how to build emails and you only need to send one message.
The only other popular alternative was PHPMailer which is great, but it just struck me that maybe developers might want something with a little more "umff"! So I wrote Swift initially for the communtity at the PHP Developers Network Forums and have decided to release it now under the LGPL. Enjoy!
Main features:
- Send uses one single connection to the SMTP server or MTA
- Doesnt rely on mail()
- Custom Headers
- Multiple encoding options
- TLS Support - for Gmail servers
- Embedded Images
- Builds and sends Multipart messages
- Sends single-part emails as usual
- Fast Cc and Bcc handling
- Batch emailing with multiple Tos or without
- Support for multiple attachments
- Set message priority
- Request Read Receipts
- Sendmail (or other binary) support
- Pluggable SMTP Authentication (LOGIN, PLAIN, MD5-CRAM, POP Before SMTP)
- Anti-Flooding support (reconnect every X emails) via plugin
- Secure Socket Layer connections (SSL)
- Loadable plugin support with event handling features

BlackMail is a highly configurable SMTP mail filter that runs at a system level as a proxy to your existing mailer. Selectively reject bogus or spam mail during receipt, saving you extra storage space or irate users.
Blackmail operates at a system-wide level: all incoming and optionally outgoing mail is filtered.Will block unwanted mail relaying (if your mailer is unable to) and spams.
The filtering consists of various checks on the SMTP envelope and message headers: if any tests fail then the mail will be bounced. Blackmail can...
Check against spam sites
Check against spam keywords
Check host names and email addresses using DNS for validity
Check against the RBL (Realtime Blackhole List) for spam IP addresses
Check that To: and From: address do not match (a common spam signature)
Check correct header formation e.g. Message-ID
The spam sites and spam keywords are of your choice, you can block who or what you want. Minimal sample lists are provided.
BlackMail is known to work with:
Mailers: Smail, Sendmail, Qmail, Fetchmail
OSes: Aix, various BSD, Irix, Linux, NeXTStep 3.x, Solaris, SunOs, SVR4 (Re-confirmation is required for some of these OSes.)
It should be possible to use BlackMail with most SMTP mailers on most UNIX systems. Blackmail is not designed to run on Windows or OS/2, but if you wish to port it...
Enhancements:
- Removed old reference to www.bitgate.com

Mail::Send is a simple electronic mail interface.

SYNOPSIS:

require Mail::Send;

$msg = new Mail::Send;

$msg = new Mail::Send Subject=>example subject, To=>timbo;

$msg->to(user@host);
$msg->to(user@host, user2@example.com);
$msg->subject(example subject);
$msg->cc(user@host);
$msg->bcc(someone@else);

$msg->set($header, @values);
$msg->add($header, @values);
$msg->delete($header);

# Launch mailer and set headers. The filehandle returned
# by open() is an instance of the Mail::Mailer class.
# Arguments to the open() method are passed to the Mail::Mailer
# constructor.

$fh = $msg->open; # some default mailer
# $fh = $msg->open(sendmail); # explicit

print $fh "Body of message";

$fh->close; # complete the message and send it

$fh->cancel; # not yet implemented

GNUMail.app is a fully featured mail application running on Linux (or FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc) and Apple Mac OS X.
GNUMail.app uses the GNUstep development framework or Apple Cocoa, which is based on the OpenStep specification provided by NeXT, Inc.. GNUMail.app is licensed under the GPL, and the full sources of the application are available.
GNUMail.app was written from scratch. It uses Pantomime as its mail handling framework.
Main features:
- Multiple POP3 (with APOP support) accounts with local cache support (for leaving messages on server);
- Multiple delivery agents (SMTP or local mailer);
- Mail spool file support for receiving;
- Good IMAP support with local caching;
- Full RFC822 and RFC2822 support;
- Read, compose, bounce, reply and forward mails;
- Mailbox management (create, delete, locking and transfer messages) using the Berkeley mbox format;
- Personal preferences management;
- MIME support (decode and encode);
- A full MIME types manager;
- Quoted Printable and BASE64 support;
- Address Book with groups support;
- Find Panel with regular expressions support;
- Automatic or manual fetching of your mails (users choice);
- Powerful filters that supports regular expressions;
- GPG (PGP) support through a bundle;
- Messages threading;
- And more...

XCmail is a MIME and multi POP3 server capable mailtool for X11 using the Xclasses layout library. XCmail was designed completely object orientated and by this may be improved easily.
The main purpose of XCmail is to read and write mails which may have any kind of data added (attached). For this XCmail can handle MIME types and has so called "helpers" to show different types. And XCmail offers "encoders" which encode and decode binary data into ASCII to allow the transport as mail over the Internet.
The GUI (graphical user interface) was designed to be mostly self explaining but of course there may be some things which are not explaining them self like settings or standard names that are unknown to first users.
The GUI was designed to be as simple as it can be and self explaining. Though, there are a few buttons which are not so easy to understand fo first users because are not standard.
XCmail also offers "encoders" which encode and decode binary data into ASCII to allow the transport via mail over the Internet.
The program works with a local mailbox (eg. /var/spool/mail) and multiple POP3 servers. With POP3 XCmail uses the faster UIDL function of POP3 servers (may be disabled if servers dont support this) and has a so called "UIDL history": If you get mails from your POP3 server but dont want to remove them there and later remove them only locally other mailers will read this mails again. Not XCmail! The UIDL history keeps a history of the mails read from the server so it wont read them again.
XCmail supports multiple mailboxes, has an address book for your favority email addresses and XCmail may start external programs to encode mails or handle MIME types.
XCmail also supportes PGP within PGP MIME (RFC 2015)!
Main features:
- allows the user to add multiple parts on one mail, eg. send files together with a text (called attachment)
- get mails from multiple remote mail servers
- send mails to a remote mail server using simple message transfer protokol (SMTP)
- authenticate on SMTP servers - is sometimes required on SMTP servers to stop spammers from relaying
- authenticate at POP3 server before sending mails via SMTP - this is required by some mail servers if they dont offer SMTP AUTH
- encrypt mails so unwanted persons can not read them
- encrypt complete MIME mails - including the attachments. This is a standard specified in RFC 2015
- send a nice and small picture of yourself with any mail - this is shown if the mail is read
- speedup for POP3
- this avoids XCmail from reading the same mails multiple times from the mail server
- to send files (eg. binaries) with a mail they must be encoded - XCmail offers various encoders, from standard uuencode and base64 to Mac HQX
- because not all attached files are programs XCmail offers an open interface to handle those data - eg. open an external viewer for pictures
- with plugins XCmail may be tuned - eg. some encoders and helpers are plugins so they may not be installed if a users doesnt need them - this required less space on disk and memory
- ever send a mail and later seen that it had some words misspelled? With ISpell this is no longer a problem. ISpell offers checks in many langauges!
- Put extra headers in every mail you send, eg some more information on you or some extra settings for mail agents
- put your favorite recipients in XCmails addressbook
- keeps an second internal addressbook for faster choosing an email recipient
- searches your addressbooks for a matching name or address during you type the recipient
- group different folder to one visible vfolder - for better overview
- Dont understand the language of a mail? XCmail may translate it for you by using altavistas babelfish service!
- You want to archiv many or every mail? This takes a lot of disk space?! Use XCmails folder archiv which compresses archived folders using GZIP standard
- sort or remove your mails before you "must" read them
- put are your favorite addresses in the addressbook
- dont know how to translate a word? use the dictionarys in the Web within the XCmail GUI
- using Spam Bouncer as spam filter plugin
- delete selected mails from your POP3 server
- big mails can be transfered explicitely from your POP3 server
- vCards can be read and a personal or official (from your job) vCard can be sent with every mail (you may choose which of them)
- mails of the incoming folder may be moved to a received folder automatically by many options (after reading, replying, forwarding a mail or if it is some days old)
- helps first time users to setup XCmail

ASK is a spam killer. This program (Active Spam Killer, or ASK for short) takes an "Active" approach in solving the problem: Everytime an email is received, a message is sent back to the sender asking for confirmation. If that sender does not confirm the message, it remains queued for delivery. If the sender confirms, the message is delivered and removed from the queue. The "confirmed" senders will be added to your "whitelist" and will never be sent another confirmation. Messages from these emails will always be delivered immediately . You can also specify an "ignorelist" for emails that should be always ignored and a "blacklist" that will cause a nastygram to be sent back to the sender everytime an email is received.

There are many traditional approaches to avoiding spam. The most common approach is based on "content-filtering": a program that attempts to classify incoming mails based on their content. This works partially, but in reality, its somewhat easy to find ways to avoid it.

ASK takes advantage of the fact that most spammers use invalid or fake "From:" address in their messages. When a new message arrives and the sender is unknown, ASK sends a "confirmation message" back, informing the sender that the original message has been queued, pending confirmation. When the sender confirms (a simple reply), ASK delivers the original message and adds the sender to a "whitelist". Further messages from this sender will be immediately delivered. It is also possible to ignore messages based on specific criteria, like senders email, subject and so on.

The goal of ASK is to block Spam mail before it is delivered to your mailbox. As we know, filtering alone is not effective since many times Spam mail contains no detectable elements.

ASK should be invoked from .forward (or .procmailrc if you are using procmail). The incoming message should be piped to ASK, which will be in charge of doing the actual delivery.

When ASK receives an email, if first checks the email address against your "ignorelist". If the address is listed there, its ignored completely. Then, the message is checked against your "blacklist". If its there, a nastygram is sent back to the sender with something like "Please stop sending me emails" in the Subject line.

The real fun happens when an email comes from an unknown user (i.e, someone not in any of your lists). In this case, ASK calculates the MD5 checksum of the message + a secret MD5 key (configured during installation time). This number is sent as part of a "confirmation message" back to the user. If the user replies to it, the confirmation number (in the subject) is recognized, the message is dequeued and delivered. If the user does not reply, the message remains queued until its removed.

The program has some intelligence to deal with specific cases. For instance, if a mail is sent to a non-existing user, the error message from mailer-daemon is ignored. This avoids seeing lots of "invalid user" messages in your inbox.

Another interesting "twist" is that messages coming from your own email address are never trusted. If the spammer knows your address he could easily fake your own address as the From: line. Messages coming from you will be identified by a "mailkey", a piece of string you always put on your message by default (maybe a piece of your own signature). Note that this has the added side-effect of allowing any messages coming in reply to a message you sent to someone (as long as that person keeps your "mailkey" in its quoted reply, a practice common these days).

The program never deletes any messages. For instance, if you send yourself a message without your mailkey (a possible Spam), it will be saved in a "Junk" mailfolder (you can specify this folder during the configuration).