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Aeromys is a webmail application designed for extremely fast
access to email through the web. It accomplishes this goal by using
predictive caching, meaning that information is retrieved from the
mail server before it is requested by the user.
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RELEASE: 0.5.0
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Sun, April 29, 2005
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After a stretch that was way too long, the next major version of
Aeromys has been released. This sports a completely rewritten back
end that uses the libEtPan IMAP library instead of c-client. C-client
was giving me too many headaches, and most importantly, it was not
reentrant. LibEtPan is a lot better. This new version does not look
much diferent than 0.3.1, but trust me, it's better. The 0.5.x series
is going to focus on feature enhancements such as user preferences,
address books, online help, folder management, etc. |
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Project Status
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Sun, Mar 27, 2005
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Yes, this project is still alive and kicking. I have not been able
to make releases for the last several weeks for various personal and
project related reasons. I am moving the project away from using
the c-client mail libraries to using libEtPan. This new library
supports more mail formats (IMAP, POP3, Hotmail, MH, mbox, and more)
and most importantly it is reentrant. The c-client library was not
safe to use in multiple threads at the same time, but this library
handles this just fine. I am working on moving over to this library
and the next release should reflect this change. Hopefully it will
happen in the next week or so.
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RELEASE: 0.3.1
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Tue, Mar 8, 2005
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I'm very excited about this release. It contains the first caching
algorithm as a module. It's not very smart, in fact it just does
very simple caching--you load data, and it is cached for the next
time. But still, it helped me find some flaws in the modular
architecture of the previous release. I have fixed those flaws
and several stability issues with webmaild.
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RELEASE: 0.3.0
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Mon, February 28, 2005
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This release marks a significant step in the development cycle of
Aeromys. The 0.3.x series of releases are going to focus mainly
on improving the caching mechanisms internally to the webmaild
process. This first release has all the architecture in place to
start doing the intelligent caching. In the next couple releases
you should start seeing some marked improvement in performance.
Note that there is still the serious flaw of all IMAP calls being
serialized across all users (only one user can connect to the
IMAP server at a time). This will be fixed later this semester
I am hoping.
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RELEASE: 0.1.4
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Fri, February 18, 2005
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I've finally gotten back in the routine of releasing every Friday.
This release has reply and reply-all functionlity which should help
usability. I also removed the custom "from" header element on the
compose screen, it will now send from username@domain. There is also
now a webmaild.conf configuration file rather than having to recompile
the whole thing to change options.
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RELEASE: 0.1.3
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Mon, February 14, 2005
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Close on the heels of the last release comes this new one with a
fresh batch of bug fixes and features. Most notable in this release
is the much improved session and folder management support. I
choose to release so soon because I want to start on the 0.3 version
which will restructure the code quite a bit, so I wanted to get these
bug fixes out the door first. Thanks for all your help in tracking
down bugs.
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RELEASE: 0.1.2
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Sat, February 12, 2005
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Finally, I've managed to release version 0.1.2. It is a complete
rewrite of the webmail daemon, sporting multi-threaded support.
There are still some issues with c-client not supporting a threaded
environment, but I managed to work around that for now. This version
won't break any speed records, but it's still pretty good. It also
has compose support, which is the last major feature necessary to
make this a fully working client. Enjoy!
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Ran Into Some Issues
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Wed, February 9, 2005
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If you're keeping tabs on the project, you may be wondering why I
didn't make a release last weekend. Well I ran into some issues with
the library I am using to handle IMAP connections. I had worked to
make webmaild multi-threaded, but as it turns out the library is not
thread safe. So I have had to rethink and restructure the inner workings
of webmaild. I have a good architecture designed now that accounts for
these issues, but it will take a little bit of time to implement. I
hope to make another release later this week.
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The login screen.
This screenshot shows the message index of my inbox.
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