I just released Mailody Release Candidate 1. What has changed since beta 1:

• Use the fancy dates, similar to KMail
• Select all messages added
• Size column added to headerview
• Almost complete Apidox documentation
• Better attachment handling
• Possibility to view messages in a fixed font
• Possibility to print a message
• Threading
• Zoom in / Zoom out
• Middle click opens a message in a new tab
• Hyperlinks and mailtos are now clickable, also in plain text mode
• In-reply-to header is now send
• Warnings when SSL/TLS is not possible, instead of silently doing nothing
• Honour Reply-to header, so replies to mailinglists are now handled better
• Fix refresh mailbox list
• Possibility to mark all messages as read for a folder
• Make it possible to connect to a custom port number
• Autocompletion now works on all known email addresses
• Possibility to Add to KDE addressbook from the composer
• Left click on an email address in the mainview opens the composer
• KWallet is no longer needed, if you don’t like KWallet, you will be prompted for a password
• New mail notification
• Labeling of messages is now prettier
• Prevent auto-logout by sending a NOOP every 25 minutes
• Faster loading of the Composer due to reading the Addressbook after Composer is shown
• Switched to a different socket handler, improves stability when changing servers
• Implement left/right to browse through the headers, up/down scrolls the message
• Dozens of small bugfixes / small improvements, not all visible stuff.

There are already Ubuntu Edgy packages available (but they should work on Debian testing/unstable and Ubuntu Dapper). Also there is a git for Gentoo!

Get it at the site

ps. Dovecot users: please wait for rc2

A while back I wrote that we needed new blood to save the KIPI-plugins. It was on the edge of being absorbed back to digiKam. Since that call a lot has changed. The mailinglist is alive, there is a coordinator, there is a webmaster, there are new plugins for GPS and iPod.

Even to the level that I learned yesterday that the last plugin which I was maintaining has been taken over by a new maintainer. Considering that for a couple of months I was maintaining most of them together with Renchi. Quite a change. There is also the rumour they are going to release a beta soon.

It’s great to see such a change and it gives faith for the future of open source projects, as long as the purpose of the software is valid, and circumstances are right (did anyone mention ‘community building’ lately?) there is a chance stuff will survive. Go Kipi!