How to use 'Mave' textbase mailer.

Requirement

  Ruby and curses library.

1. Get archive and Extract
  Access http://sourceforge.jp/projects/mave/downloads/44582/mave.tgz/
  $ tar xvfz mave.tgz
  $ cd mave

2. Build your config

  $ cp mave.config.sample mave.config
  $ vi mave.config

    rewrite setting of 'Main' account to yours.

    configure your editor environment.

    @configs[:EDITOR_TYPE] = ['system'|'forkexec']
        system: Mave close curses window and wake editor with same console. For CUI.
      forkexec: Mave fork child process and wake editor another window. For GUI.

    @configs[:EDITOR] = '/usr/bin/editor %s'
      The command of wake editor. %s is replaced to file name. 

3. Make directory for store mail files

  $ mkdir ~/mave.mails

4. Execute Mave

  $ ./mave

5. Fetch mails

  Press Ctrl + x, p key to fetch mails from server.

  In default, Mave does not remove mails on pop server immediately.
  The time lag until removing mails was set by ':POP_KEEP_TIME'.
  It is possible to try use Mave in parallel with your current mailer.

6. Explore mails

  Each h, j, k, and l key were allocated in each Left, Down, Up, and Right like the Vi editor. 

  However, the function to send mail has not been provided to Mave yet...

7. Create/Edit mail message

  Press Ctrl + x, n key to create new mail message.
  Press Ctrl + x, r key to create reply mail message.
  The message will store to 'drafts' folder.

  Press Ctrl + x, e key to edit mail message.
  The message will overwrite.

8. Quit

  Press Ctrl + x, c key to kill mave.

Enjoy!!

Note:
  When multibyte character is troubled.
  Standard curses library of Ruby doesn't correspond to UTF-8. 
  Please apply the patch to correspond to ncursesw referring to the following sites. 
  Mave corresponds only to the terminal environment of UTF-8 now. 

  http://www.itline.jp/~svx/diary/?date=20091022

Mave project official page:
  http://sourceforge.jp/projects/mave/

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