Gotmail 0.8.8 Released [LWN.net]

From:		Jon-AT-freedesktop.org, "Phillips <jon"@rejon.org
To:		LWN.net <lwn-AT-lwn.net>
Subject:		Gotmail 0.8.8 Released! http://gotmail.sf.net/
Date:		Sun, 5 Mar 2006 17:20:06 -0800 (PST)

Gotmail 0.8.8 Released!

March 5, 2006 - The Gotmail project, a perl script which downloads mail
from hotmail.com without user interaction, released version 0.8.8 today. This is a simple
maintenance release with only a few basic bug fixes applied including better dealing with spaces in
folder names and extra lines in config
files.

While normally the project releases versions with more changes, the development
community decided that releasing with some bug fixes is a priority. This is
especially true now that the program, Gotmail, already accomplishes its
primary goal of "downloading mail from hotmail.com."

In the future, the Gotmail Project looks to add support for the new Hotmail
beta which uses AJAX technology and a refined interface to provide a better
user experience. The project seeks developers who might be interested in
submitting code to become compatible with this new service.

Another feature that is desired by the development community is integration
with other applications, such as Novell's Evolution e-mail client
(http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution). Already included in this release is
a simple script for transporting one's hotmail into evolution. What would
make for a strong feature is to develop a plugin which directly uses
gotmail to check one's hotmail account from within Evolution.

The Gotmail development community thrives off of users of the script, and ask
for people to visit http://gotmail.sf.net/ to test out the latest version,
file bug reports, and join the development process.

Itemized list of major changes:

* Applied patch from jdanwhite to help with spaces in folder names.

* Fixed bug in allowing empty lines in config files

* Include "gotmail4evolution" script which transports one's hotmail mail
to a folder in evolution.