BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: New offline QWK mail reader: SlyMail De: Nightfox Data: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:14:35 -0700 ----------------------------------------------------------- Based on the request of a fellow sysop, I've created a new offline QWK mail reader (with the help of Claude AI), which I call SlyMail. Currently I consider it to be a beta version, as it hasn't been tested thoroughly, so there may be some bugs, but currently it's functional as far as being able to read messages from a QWK packet and save new messages, etc. Also, I've never really used an offline mail reader much myself, so there may be some useful features in other offline readers I haven't seen yet - I plan to check out some other readers and see what features they offer. I've briefly used MultiMail and experimented with GoldEd but never really used those very much. They may have features that could be useful to include in SlyMail. Some highlights of SlyMail: - It has a text-based user interface with a look & feel (at least somewhat) similar to my DDMsgReader & SlyEdit mods for Synchronet - It's multi-platform: It works on Linux and Windows, and should also build for Mac OS, BSD, and other *nix-style OSes - QWKE (extended QWK) compatibility - Compatibility with ANSI, as well as color codes of various BBS software packages (Synchronet, WWIV, PCBoard/Wildcat, Celerity, Renegade) - It understands Synchronet poll messages and vote replies: Poll messages should display properly in it, and poll response headers shouldn't show up in message lists. It should also allow you to vote on messages (according to Synchronet's voting system), but I'm not sure that is 100% working. - It should be UTF-8 compatible (not 100% sure if this is fully working properly) - It should be able to handle file attachments It's available on GitHub, and there are screenshots: https://github.com/EricOulashin/SlyMail The latest release (with binaries) is version 0.51, for both Windows and Linux: https://github.com/EricOulashin/SlyMail/releases/tag/SlyMail_051 The Linux binaries were built on KUbuntu 25.10. If the Linux binaries don't run for you, I think it should be fairly easy to build binaries from source on Linux. I haven't made Mac OS binaries, since I don't have a Mac, but I have an automated build job on GitHub that does a build for Ubuntu and Mac OS upon checkin, and it looks like both succeeded, so I *think* it should build for Mac OS fairly easily. Nightfox n --- gSynchronetn Digital Distortion: digitaldistortionbbs.com ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]