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Hypermail is a free (GPL) program to convert email from Unix mbox format to html.
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                             Hypermail



                          Version:  2.4.x



This is a release of the 2.4.x version of hypermail.



Hypermail is a program that takes a file of mail messages in UNIX mailbox

format and generates a set of cross-referenced HTML documents. 



SECURITY WARNING: 

   Do not put hypermail's output anyplace where a web server might have 

   server side includes (SSI) enabled unless you are sure you know what 

   you are doing. 



WARNING: 

   There once existed a program call "mail" that came with hypermail.

   'mail' utility has not installed by default for the last two years.  

   This program has been disabled because it was probably easy for spammers 

   to use as an open relay. It also had problems with enabling malicious 

   use of JavaScript and CRLF Injection.  The 'mail' utility is a historic 

   reclic and will not be supplied in future versions.  Its functionality 

   has been replaced with a warning that anyone using it should remove it 

   immediately.  



See the INSTALL file to get started. For a description of how to use it,

see the hypermail.html, hmrc.html, and hypermail-faq.html files that come

in the docs/ directory.

Please refer to Changelog for the list of recent changes.



Hypermail is distributed under the GNU GPL license (see the file COPYING for

details). Some programs that are distributed with it in the archive and

contrib directories have different licenses - check the individual files for

details.



Hypermail Background:

=====================



Hypermail was originally designed and developed by Tom Gruber for

Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT) using Common Lisp. 



It was later rewritten in C by Kevin Hughes in 1994 while Kevin 

worked at EIT. 



License Evolution:

------------------



In the spring of 1997, Kevin Hughes heavily pressed Hewlett-Packard

(who was now the legal owner of Hypermail, since EIT was bought by

VeriFone, which was bought by Hewlett-Packard) into placing a free

software license onto his old EIT software.  They officially put the

GNU GPL license on *all* of Kevin's old EIT software, opening it up to

more open methods of development and distribution. So now Hypermail

is under GPL.



EIT's net.disappearance:

------------------------



A very old and established government contractor company called 

Electronic Instrumentation and Technology Inc. made legal moves to 

obtain the eit.com domain. Since VeriFone/HP had no interest in keeping 

EIT, dissolved it completely.  As this company had a trademark on EIT, 

the domain name was given to them. Elizabeth Batson of EIT/VeriFone/HP 

informed Kevin he could maintain all his old software himself wherever 

he wished to put it.



Kevin and ongoing Hypermail Development:

----------------------------------------



Kevin left Hewlett-Packard in 1997 and helped form a new company 

called Veo Systems (www.veosystems.com) with his old boss Marty 

Tenenbaum, who founded EIT. Kevin did not have the time to maintain 

any of his old software, so he was looking for different parties to 

help maintain it and take over different pieces. For instance, Getstats 

has been obsoleted by Analog (http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/analog/). 

SWISH has been taken over by the SWISH-E project 

(http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/) and many people have been doing 

good things with it.  April 17, 1998 Kevin passed hypermail development 

to Kent Landfield (http://www.hypermail.org/). Kent had been 

supporting an enhanced version of hypermail he had been using for the 

last few years. It has gradually become a group effort, with Peter McCluskey

 often acting as the leader during its heydays. 

Since a couple of years, it is stable and mostly unmaintained. W3C continues

to contribute to this repository, although infrequently, sharing with the

community enhancements and bug fixes originating from its use of

hypermail.



General:

========



This version has been tested on the platforms listed below. If you would 

like to send portability patches or confirmation that it works on a certain

platform, please do.  There should not be toooo many changes that need to be 

made.



This version of hypermail has substantial support for attachments and for

splitting archives into subdirectories. It also allows an administrator to

customize the header and footers to match their local needs.  This allows

you to have hypermail facilities better integrated into your web site. 



This version is an integration of patches that Kevin had received through

the years, and new features through the individual efforts many people.  

This has been run through lint, Insight and Purify and has been cleaned up 

accordingly.



   * archive - general archive utilites that are useful in managing

               list archives. Much of the functionality here has been

               rendered obsolete by the folder_by_date option.

   * contrib - contributed hypermail relate utilities

   * configs - sample hypermail configuration files,

   * docs    - documentation and documentation support files,

   * libcgi  - support library for the mail utility,

   * src     - here's the beef,

   * tests   - directory for supporting local testing,



Warning:

========



Take the time to read the KNOWN_BUGS file so that you are aware of 

things that might affect your use of hypermail.



GIT Repository:

===============



Hypermail's code base has migrated from CVS to git and after a

residence at sourceforge, now resides at github:



  https://github.com/hypermail-project/hypermail/



CVS Server:

===========



The hypermail CVS repository has been retired. Hypermail's code base

now resides at github (see above).



Thanks to Ashley M. Kirchner  for having

hosted and keep alive the CVS repository during the years.



Getting Help:

=============



    There is no active dedicated mailing list for hypermail support or

    development.



    Please use hypermail's github repository issue tracker for all bug

    reports, feature requests, patches, and other program-related

    things. This project is under low-maintenance priority.



    You can browse the old hypermail development mailing list archives

    from the historical hypermail project homepage:



       http://hypermail-project.org/



Additionally:

=============



    You'll find the image "hypermail.gif" included with the source;

    this icon is for your use in your Hypermail-related pages and links 

    to them. If you are talented with graphics and would like to donate

    new icons and images to the hypermail effort, please feel free.



Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package,

which is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright

by the University of Cambridge, England. See http://www.pcre.org/.