Released version 0.11, with the beginning of per-folder setting.
Buffy displays a window with a summary of your mailboxes, and lets you open them in your mail program.
It is written with the intent of being a handy everyday tool for people handling large volumes of mail. For mutt users, this can be a nice front-end to supplement the simple built-in folder browser when one has many folders to keep track of.
Buffy tries hard to work out of the box: it looks for mail folders in sensible places and comes with reasonable defaults.
Buffy currently supports mail stored in maildir, mbox and gzipped mbox format.
Released version 0.11, with the beginning of per-folder setting.
Buffy sources can be downloaded from the files section of the Buffy Alioth project.
The Buffy application is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
The interface-independent mailbox scanning code in libbuffy is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Most projects like buffy are currently orphaned. Buffy is not, and is happy to accept contributions.
No interface fits all. We know it, and that's why the code for scanning mailboxes and reading configuration is split in a separate library that can be reused by similar applications. If you don't like the buffy interface, you can create your own using libbuffy. And since no programming language fits all, libbuffy has swig bindings, so you can use it from almost any language of your choice.
We all read e-mail. For most of us, it's the main activity in front of the computer. We need good software for e-mail as much as we need good web browsers of compilers. If you have something to contribute, be sure to write to the list.
Enrico Zini is the author and maintainer of buffy,
Big contributions come from, and thanks go to: Maurizio "Tannoiser" Lemmo and Martin F. Krafft.
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