Gotmail 0.8.6 Released!

[Jon Phillips <jon rejon org>]

August 23, 2005 - The Gotmail project, a perl script which downloads mail from 
hotmail.com without user interaction, released version 0.8.6 today. This 
version adds support for running the script on the various Windows platforms. 
Additionally, thanks to new developer, Jos De Laender, Gotmail now has support
for multiple languages. There are many new commandline options as well as 
several improvements with the packaging for the project. This means that it is
simpler for distribution packagers to build Gotmail easily. 

The coming months will see new additions to Gotmail and a redo on the system's
debugging output. Also, with the changes on the script's localization, 
user's should expect to see further language support additions.

The Gotmail development community thrives off of users of the script, and ask 
for people to visit http://gotmail.sf.net/ to test out the latest version,
file bug reports, and join the development process.

Itemized list of major changes:

    * Multi-language support detection

    * VERSION file sets version in one place.

    * Makefile now does 'make dist' to make all packages like tarball, zip, 
    rpm, src rpm, etc.

    * Set gotmail to run silent by default to be a good unix citizen. If
    there is an error then a non-zero status is returned. The output can 
    be turned on again with the --debug setting and other verbosity 
    controls.

    * WIN32 Support: Added windows compatibility to the script. This 
    includes some code to do OS checking to prepare for possible future 
    differences between systems which might need to be accounted for. 
	
    * Added two new options: -l, --log <path_to_logfile> and 
    --use-log which then explictly writes a log. 
	
    * README: Added instructions for using gotmail on Windows.

    * Updated the man page with all new options. 

    * Makefile: Make more packager-friendly by adding DESTDIR support
    and generally tidying up. Add "rpm", "srpm", and "rpms" targets
    for building binary RPM, source RPM, or both.

    * Added gotmail.spec for RPM building.

    * Merged patch by Jens E. Madsen Jr. to clean up temporary files on exit. 
  
    * Merged another patch by same author that adds --summary option. 


Packages ready for download:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gotmail/gotmail-0.8.6-1.noarch.rpm?download

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gotmail/gotmail-0.8.6-1.src.rpm?download

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gotmail/gotmail-0.8.6.tar.gz?download

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gotmail/gotmail-0.8.6.zip?download


http://gotmail.sf.net/