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to: Fernando Toledo
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2021-05-19 08:33:00
subject: Re: fmail for linux

Hi Fernando,

On 2021-05-18 22:51:31, you wrote to me:

 >>   FT> i search if exists fmail build for linux,
 >>
 >> Only partly... Read this if you are interested:
 >>
 >> http://vlzn.nl/fmail/files/fmail-linux-install.txt

 FT> I'm success build fmail on linux. The fmail an ftools executables just
 FT> build and work.

Ok great! :-)

 FT> Is there an example of the fmail.cfg file?

On every installed system there is one. ;)

 FT> is it a binary file?

Yes.

You can look at the used structures here: https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/master/tree/fmstruct.h

 FT> I think you could get to program something using python to replace
 FT> that utility if it is not too complicated.

Python would be great, as long as the program runs in a text console, without dependencies on uncommon libraries...

But there are more files, besides fmail.cfg, it needs to be abel to read and write to. Look at paragraph 1.2 of FMail.txt. And there are more files it needs to know about if you want to implement all functionality, like for instance the import functions.

I already did some experimental command line tools in python:
https://sourceforge.net/p/fmail/code/ci/linux/tree/tools/

That convert the fmail.ar(t) file to and from text based formats.


Bye, Wilfred.

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