VINE: Vim Integrated News and Email

or VINE is not PINE

Welcome to the 0.30 ALPHA release of VINE -- a new mail and news client. Well, ok, for now it's just a mail client.

VINE is a set of perl and vim scripts which run with the editor 'vim', and make it possible to do all ones' email, USENET news, and calendaring.

I undertook this project because of the extreme frustration of having multiple machines and multiple email accounts, and being unable to keep all my email synchronized and present on all my machines. I have to use Outlook for work, but it doesn't run on Linux systems.

Goals of VINE:

• Be simple to set up, yet sophisticated enough to handle most user scenarios.
• Require only GPL or other free software
• Never use proprietary file formats!
• Don't care what sort of machine one is running on; allow anyone from an MS-DOS user to a Cray user equal access to features.

Features in version 0.30: (new! 31 Mar 2000)

• still more bug fixes
• Calendar support via 'remind' external program
• tagging in the index. Press 't' to tag an item, 'D' will delete it
• tag by subject, from or regular expression
• rules and aliases made plain-text and more documented
• more shifting around of menus
• highlighting *bold* and _underline_ inside mail messages
• incoming mail headers are re-arranged so that the important ones are grouped together, next to the text. This makes it much more readable!

Features in version 0.25: (02 Feb 2000)

• more bug fixes
• enhanced index, flags, better menu layout
• browse urls from VINE
• lots more enhancements

Features in version 0.21:

• small bug fixes

Features in version 0.20:

• MIME support
• tagged index, better sort support
• lots of fixes
• lots of features -- see README.TXT

• grab mail from POP servers
• allow multiple 'profiles' (different server setups)
• automatically index, etc., mail based on rules

Planned for future releases:

• allow viewing and posting USENET articles
• allow retrieving and following web pages
• keep contact information (emails especially!)
• keep calendar of events, task list (move forward tasks)
• LDAP support
• MUCH better setup and docs. Sorry!

Prerequisites: vim 5.5 or later perl 5.005 with the following packages: libnet MD5 MailTools TimeDate MimeTools

Download it here: vine-0.30.tar.gz
You might want my Win32 port of 'remind', or perhaps you want the the remind home page.

If you have comments or problems, please let me know and I will attempt to fix bugs you report for the next release.

Technical notes: VINE stores your mail as plain text RFC822 format.

Last updated: 02/02/2000 07:06