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Grendel is a mail/news reader entirely written in Java. It's goal is
to be a true cross-platform application with a feature set that
satisfies the poweruser.
history
Grendel was originally developed as a part of the 'Javagator'
project at Netscape. This project was abandoned before it was
finished, but after the source was released other people started to
complete it. The original release had a
lot of incomplete parts.
current state
Since then a lot has been cleaned up. Grendel compiles now and the
basic functionality to read and send e-mail is working. Some of its
most promising features is the usage of multiple identities for
sending e-mail.
Still there are a lot of things to be done before it can be called
a useful mailer. There are still some network and interface handling
work. SMTP, POP3, and IMAP are working beautiful. It's usable right
now though many features such as message deletion and movement are
missing.
Here are some of the more pressing bugs:
- Make grendel.widgets.TreeTable thread-safe.
- Get the preference editor to support multiple identities.
- Fix NewsRC reading.
- Get address book working.
- Enhance the XML built widgets for simpler usage.
- Adding context sensitive menus.
the future
We'd like to implement all sorts of filters. There's been some
discussions of filters in a XML-like language and even filters in Java
to do everything from message removal (spam!) and message
movement. What goes next is anyone's guess. Grendel can be as much
your project as it is ours.
We're open to new ideas and we invite you to implement any useful
features.
community
Discussion takes place in the newsgroup
netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news. This newsgroup is also gatewayed to
a mailing list. More information can be found on Mozilla's
Community pages.
If you want get involved in the development of grendel, please contact
us.
tools
To aid the development all mozilla.org tools are available for
Grendel hackers:
- CVS - Grendel is a module on it's own inside the mozilla CVS repository.
More information is on the CVS page.
- LXR is a great tool to browse the source
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Bonsai is the tree control tool which can be used to track the changes
to the tree. An interesting query is
this one, which shows all checkins to Grendel during the last week.
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Tinderbox - There is one machine which continously downloads the whole
grendel source and tries to compile it. This is to detect compile problems with
the checkins.
- Bugzilla keeps track of all bugs
in Grendel and who is working on them.
documentation
Building and running
JavaMail
Design and ideas
Links to other places
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