Hypermail is a free program for creating

email Electronic mail (usually shortened to email; alternatively hyphenated e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving Digital media, digital messages using electronics, electronic devices over a computer network. It was conceived in the ...

archives, in the form of cross-referenced

HTML Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It defines the content and structure of web content. It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets ( ...

documents. It takes a file in

Unix Unix (, ; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, a ...

mbox Mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of email messages. It was first implemented in Research Unix, Fifth Edition Unix. All messages in an mbox mailbox are Concatenation, concatenated and store ...

format and generates an HTML archive, complete with an index and various sorting options. It is commonly used for creating mailing list archives, but it can archive any collection of emails. Originally written in 1994 by Tom Gruber using

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, it was rewritten in C by Kevin Hughes for its initial public release in 1994. The mbox format is used by several

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s on various platforms, including most

and

Linux Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...

ones. Popular examples of email clients that use the mbox format (and as such are compatible with Hypermail) include Kmail,

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and

Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source email client that also functions as a personal information manager with a Digital calendar, calendar and contactbook, as well as an RSS feed reader, chat client (IRC/XMPP/Matrix (protocol), Matrix), ...

. Hypermail is operated at the command line. It was originally intended for use in

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platforms such as Linux. However, it is also possible to use the program in

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by compiling it with MinGW, or by using the Cygwin library.

References

External links

Hypermail's homepage

Hypermail's old homepage
(archived June 2005) * {{github, hypermail-project/hypermail Free email software

See also

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