Downloading/ Installing/ Configuring jayMail

The jayMail program files can be downloaded from SourceForge.net. The packages on SourceForge will normally be the newest versions.

The distribution tar packages always contain the sourcecode. As I don't release a new distribution very often it makes more sense to download the source code from the CVS Repository on SourceForge.net.

You can browse the CVS Repository or check out the source tree using the following command:

$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.jaymail.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/jaymail login
$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.jaymail.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/jaymail co jaymail

When prompted for a password for anonymous simply press the Enter key.

To install the mailclient you just need to unpack the package file you downloaded to a place of your liking.

The distribution files contain the jar folder, the sources folder and some scripts.

To run jayMail you only need the jar folder and the scripts runJayMail.bat or runJayMail.sh.

If you do not want to change the sources you can delete the sources folder and the build files.

Starting with jayMail version 0.12pre-alpha you need Java v1.4 to run the program. This can be downloaded at http://java.sun.com.

To start the program just type one of the following commands on the commandline:

$ java -jar jars/jayMail.jar
$ runJayMail.bat
$ runJayMail.sh

You can also add an icon to your desktop.

The program can be configured under File->Preferences.

Also some commandline options can be passed to the program:

$ java -jar jars/jayMail.jar --help

jayMail - 1.00pre-alpha build 20021206
Copyright (c) 2001 Maximilian Schwerin

jayMail comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under the conditions described in the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.


Options :

--configfile <filename>, -c <filename> : use a non standard configuration filename
--configfolder <folder>, -f <folder> : use the passed folder to store the different config files
--debug, -d : print out debug messages
--maildebug, -m : print out debug messages of the mail systems
--random, -r : start the random number generation at startup time, startup is slower!

If you start jayMail without any options, the configfiles and the mails will all be stored under the folder, that contains the jayMail jar folder.

If you want the configfiles to be stored in a different folder you need to use the --configfolder option.

The --configfile option gives you the possibility to specify different configfiles for different operationsystems. This is useful, as the pathnames may differ under different operatingsystems.

The debug options, especially the --maildebug, print out a lot of messages, so it is better not to activate them, when you are not experiencing problems with jayMail.

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