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XMail 3.7 has been released !

Tuesday 10 October 2006, by Jean-Baptiste Le Stang

XMail 3.7 has been released. XMail is a free osax for Mac OS X (10.4.x for both PPC and Intel) allowing you to send mails from AppleScript without having to use a third part application. XMail supports the following :

- common authentication schemes (POP, APOP, PLAIN, AUTH, ANONYMOUS, CRAM-MD5, CRAM-SHA1)
- text and HTML mails
- supports unicode flawlessly in many fields (TO, CC, BCC, Subject, Body,...)
- allow the customization of mail headers
- handles SSL sockets
- handles file attachments XMail is released under the GNU GPL licence and is free of use.

Here is a detailed description of what was added / fixed in this release of XMail :

- fixed a bug when trying to authenticate without giving the username and/or password
- Added a switch to allow you change the date of the mail being sent (either a string or an AppleScript date)
- the ’mail date’ command has been renamed to ’mail datestamp’ (there was a terminology conflict)
- the ’mail datestamp’ now accepts an applescript date as its direct parameter and generates a RFC822 compatible date
- added the ability to generate a mail without sending it
- added the ability to write the content of the mail being sent in a file
- when no smtp server is given, "localhost" is assumed
- fixed a bug when encoding string of more than 76 characters in the headers of a mail (Subject, To, Cc, Bcc fields)
- fixed a bug in the base64 encoding algorithm making it impossible for some SMTP servers to deliver properly attachments
- fixed interoperability with some SMTP servers when using SSL encrypted sockets
- fixed a memory issue when sending multiples attachments
- fixed a problem when using XMail with a MacTel

XMail is free, but if you are a regular user of XMail, then consider buying a $10 licence for XMail

You can download the latest Binary version of XMail here

You can download the latest sources of XMail here

Happy scripting & e-mailing !

1 Message

  • Re: XMail 3.7 has been released ! 16 April 2008 01:21, by emmayche

    It seems to work great! However, there are two small issues that you might want to look at.

    First, when sending a "From" address in the form "name <user@domain.tld>", the name portion is dropped and only the email address is placed in the message.

    Second, if I put in an "extra" header which is the same as one of XMail’s normal headers, both headers are placed into the message rather than just the one(s) I specify. Fixing this issue would fix the first one as well by simply letting me override the original "From" header with one of my own.

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