This release is the first one to be developed under the SourceForge umbrella
and, coincidently, some new things happened to aMail:
Broad audience intended: The multilingual support, added to this
release, allows more people worldwide to use it, without rewriting the
program in each new language to be deployed (just one module).
Modularization: As part of a broad audience intended, and looking
inside aMail, each new feature added is carried out as a module. This permits
that different functions are being carried out by different and individualized
modules. In the near future each user would select the modules to use according
to the intended specific use, allowing the use of each line of code in the program
(no dead code to waste disk and memory space)
Suppose you are a home user, then all e-mails, preferences, etc. will be stored
in a group of files, but if you are a company offering mail hosting probably the
storage of information and e-mail for hundreds of users is better accomplished
by using a database: simply replace the files storage module with the proper
for database use and voilá, you are using each piece of code.
Adaptability: Many times you want a new look or any customization
to be carried out, but don't want to make any code change (simply you don't
have the time to do it or don't know Perl). In this release the first step has
been to implement a simple skin mechanism, that allows to change all icons.
Documentation: A User's Manual has been added. Basically the
original aMail download page written by Alex Hart was reorganizated, updated
and accessed inside aMail (a new button supports this functionality).
Portability: More efforts are being devoted to testing on other
platforms (mainly tested on Linux, OpenBSD and Windows NT), and a few bugs
have been corrected to support them.
Of course some bugs have been corrected, and the original version is being updated
with bug fixes (take a look at aMail-original package)
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