Pyne

(it is dead - don't use it)

I stopped developing this a while back, and now use Thunderbird for email. You probably don't want to use this thing, but here is the original site anyway:

Pyne is an offline newsreader/emailer written in Python using the GTK+ toolkit. I started it because I wasn't happy with the graphical newsreaders available for linux. Of course, a few months later Pan and Knode started to kick arse... oh well.

Pyne 0.6.9 is for gtk1.2, and is a bit old and therefore crappy (it follows). Pyne 1.0.0 is shiny and new and for gtk2.0, and therefore great. Pyne 1.1.0 contains fixes and new features for gtk2.4+ (and mailbox formats are unchanged from 1.0.x, so you can use the two versions interchangably).

Pyne is free software and may be distributed under the terms of the GPL, etc...

Features:

Offline, threaded news reading and posting.
Well... the posting is online actually but that can't be avoided. queued outgoing stuff anyway ;-)
SMTP sending and POP3 and IMAP4 collection of mail.
Attachments and all that stuff.
Simple mail/news filtering.
Optional expiry of mail as well as news. Useful for mailing lists.
hmm... nice graphical interface. i'm really scraping the barrel here...
(Partial) support for MH mailboxes.
Import and export unix mailbox format.
External parsing of html messages (lynx -dump)

Version (Branch)	Date (D/M/Y)	Size (bytes)	MD5sum	ChangeLog
1.1.0 (fairly stable, GTK 2.4+)	5/5/2005	218,018	e99573e3eea45c23385de301b0d41873	ChangeLog
1.0.3 (stable, GTK 2.x)	4/5/2005	217,471	ca97ef3e9856d3da9c7769b2cf12d9b2	ChangeLog
0.6.9 (stable, GTK 1.2)	3/1/2002	148,597	5ee0f2df56900cb42cbd7a6094edabd0

The versions marked 'devel' are mid feature bung versions, and may be a little infested with bugs and such like. Use the most recent stable version if you're scared. I welcome bug reports, feature requests and... mmmm... patches :-)

Some random screenshots:

Pyne 0.6.0 in my nice dark theme.

Talking to myself in the composer window.

The main window. How cute.

Last updated 5/5/2005. Email 'soul-less' at 'blueyonder.co.uk'.

Email 't-morton' at 'blueyonder.co.uk'