Hi! I'm glad to announce the release of zope_messages version 0.1.0 to the community! What is zope_messages? zope_messages is a messaing client for Zope. (Actually, it could be used without Zope in the future - but that's a different story.) Its architecture is intended to support many (every?) kind of message; nntp, imap, jabber, icq and so on. (How good web interfaces are for all those messages is a different subject.) iMeme¹ needed a new webmail client, and Thingamy² too. Hey presto! New project up and running before you could say "chicken pie with raw potatoes." The mailing list is at http://lists.imeme.net/ - please feel to join, the more the merrier. Getting zope_messages Since this is an alpha release, I haven't added a distribution of the sources on zope.org or any similar place, yet. I expect there will be loads of comments and bugfixes and when I've integrated those (and added a couple of more nice features I'd like to get in there) I'll be publishing the sources. If you are interested in getting them now, just send me an email and I'll tarball it up for you. :-) Check out the demo At http://www.thingamy.com:11000/zope-messages there is an instance up and running just begging to be tested to death. Go on, try it... I know you want to... username: mailtest password: mailtest Brief tutorial Look up the URL. Click "New message" and fill out whatever you like (please do not abuse this - you can send to whom you'd like and the recipient would stand as myself. Any abuse and the demo goes right down - I'm adding a BCC header to each message sent out..). Notice that you can use Noa Harvey's Spellchecker product to spellcheck the messages before you ship them off. To the top right-hand corner of your browser window, you should have a dropdown box. Select "Virtual message container" and press "View". Press "IMAP account at thingamy.com"... you should now see the messages. Cool, huh? WarpFramework I used Morten Petersen's WarpFramework (pick up your copy at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/warp-framework) to have a lot of nitty gritty stuff done for me, and this has made the development of the product easier. The layout comes from the WarpFramework, and is created by Alan Runyan, Alexander Limi and Vidar Andersen. Kudos! Oh, and I thought I'd mention this: this message was sent using zope_messages; if you check out the demo, it's right there in the Outbox. ¹ http://imeme.net/ ² http://www.thingamy.com, http://www.thingamy.net and http://www.thingamy.org