Solaris access for porting S-nail (a MUA)?

Dagobert Michelsen via buildfarm buildfarm at lists.opencsw.org
Wed May 20 14:09:38 CEST 2015


Hi Steffen,

Am 20.05.2015 um 13:10 schrieb Steffen Nurpmeso <sdaoden at yandex.com>:
> I'm maintaining S-nail, an extended mailx(1)-like MUA.  I came
> along OpenCSW via an announcement from Ingo Schwarze and would be
> very interested in gaining access to the Solaris operating system
> for compile-testing (and "make test"ing) this program!  (I'm also
> in the process of forking GNU troff, and being able to check the
> build system i will introduce on Solaris i would like very much,
> too).
> S-nail is part of ArchLinux core and is also (and already)
> packaged by CRUX Linux, Void Linux, and OpenBSD.  Maybe you are
> interested – i surely would appreciate this possibility!
> It follows an excerpt of the README file.
> Ciao!

Sure, just send me your ssh public key and I’ll set you up.


Best regards

  — Dago

> 
>  S-nail is a mail processing system with a command syntax reminiscent of
>  ed(1) with lines replaced by messages.  It is intended to provide the
>  functionality of the POSIX mailx(1) command and offers (mostly optional)
>  extensions for line editing, IDNA, MIME, S/MIME, SMTP and POP3.
>  It is usable as a mail batch language.
>  S-nail is a derivative of Heirloom mailx, formerly known as nail, which
>  itself is based upon Berkeley Mail that has a history back to the 70s.
> 
>  Please refer to the file INSTALL for build and installation remarks,
>  and to NEWS for release update information.  The file THANKS mentions
>  people who have helped improving S-nail and deserve acknowledgement.
> 
>  S-nail has git(1) repositories at Sourceforge[1] (browsable[2]) and
>  GitLab.com[3] (browsable[4]), and regulary produces release tarballs[5],
>  which can also be addressed directly[6] (e.g., via `curl -v -L').
>  There is also something visual on the web that includes the latest
>  version of the manual online[7].
>  And we have a mailing list[8] with moderated unsubscribed posting
>  possibilities; subscriptions can be managed via webinterface[9];
>  GMANE.org added s-nail-users@ to their archive[10] -- thank you!
> 
>    [1] git.code.sf.net/p/s-nail/code (HTTP / GIT)
>    [2] http://sourceforge.net/p/s-nail/code/
>    [3] https://gitlab.com/s-nail/s-nail.git
>    [4] https://gitlab.com/s-nail/s-nail
>    [5] https://sourceforge.net/projects/s-nail/files/?source=navbar
>    [6] https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/s-nail/s-nail-VERSION.tar.xz
>    [7] http://sdaoden.users.sourceforge.net/code.html#s-nail
>    [8] mailto:s-nail-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>    [9] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/s-nail-users/
>    [10] news://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.s-nail.user
> 
> 
> --steffen

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