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| Starting from scratch. | 9 Sep 2004 |
I've decided to completely rewrite Ascension from the ground up. The main reason being that the code as it stands now will not allow me to do the things I want to be able to do with it. I've learned a lot in the process of building it so far, so hopefully it won't take another 3 years before a new release!
When I've figured out the new architecture I might provide more details about hows it's all going to work. Watch this space...
| Version 0.3 "I told you so, Greg!" released. | 6 Apr 2004 |
First public release of Ascension. Feedback is welcome, but please note I have limited free time at present. Contributions and patches are very welcome.
Ascension
Ascension is my attempt at an email client (screenshots here). It makes use of the KDE libraries, so you will need KDE installed if you wish to use it (works with 3.2, might work with 3.1). Although the code is still in alpha, I have been using it as my main email client for over a year.
If you wish to try it, you would be sensible to backup your email first. Using imap should be relatively safe, but pop3 and Unix (local) mailboxes have not been so extensively tested. I take no responsibility for any loss of data while using this program. Ascension has only been tested under Linux.
The current version supports:
- IMAP (not SSL) mailboxes.
- Pop3 (not SSL) mailboxes.
- Unix mailboxes.
- Viewing of HTML messages (no HTML composing).
- Limited searching of headers.
- Dockable parts.
- Fonts and colours are configurable, as is much of the behvaiour.
Still to do:
- Support SSL connections (probably requires a rewrite of a good portion of the mailbox subsystem).
- PGP and S/MIME support.
- Virtual folders.
- A ton of ideas yet to come.
I don't have much time to devote to this project at present. I intended to make it more feature complete before it was released, but it's better that it's out here than sitting on my hard disk. I'd be interested in contributions from others.
Download
Please note this is alpha quality code. It is not really intended for end users, but feedback and patches are very welcome. Ascension is released under the GPL.
ascension-0.3.tar.gz
Here is the latest snapshot from CVS. It's not compatabile with the above release, so you'll probably have to wipe your configuration files first.
ascension-snapshot.tar.gz [7/11/2006]