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Hope everyone out there had a “Guten Rutsch” which is a German term describing the transition from the old into the new year - need something for my headache before I can go on! It was quite a calm time lately for everyone watching us, but this is ... [More] about to change as we are working like mad man on the next release of Columba. The focus of this release will go away a bit from the email client towards a "Collaboration Thingy" - trying hard here not to use "Groupware" here ;-) There are a lot of new ideas floating around currently, so I will try to put all this into a roadmap. Yes right, Columba's users will finally get a roadmap! read more [Less]

In the beginning was Sun and Sun begat Java. Two Uni Students Freddy and Timo saw it was good and decided the world needed YAEC (Yet Another Email Client)! After much toil, and with the help of a few more developers (some also Uni students!), Columba ... [More] v1.0 was released. About this time, Freddy decided to do some different SASsy Java programming and Timo decided a PhD in Pyrotechnic software would be fun to achieve. So the original two developers, while still helping work on Columba have asked if we can find some more developers interested in working on items in our roadmap (or come up with new ideas of their own)! read more [Less]

With the aim of revamping our current Ant build process and introducing Maven project building, Developer Freddy has done one of his famous "touch -R *" in the cvs HEAD image and rearranged the layout of our Columba source tree. The first thing you ... [More] will notice after you build the new image (using: ant clean jar plugins) is that you suddenly can no longer view any messages using the JDIC or Flying Saucer viewers. Never fear, the solution is painless! Just go into Utilities->Plugin Manager and remove and re-add your plugins. Restart Columba and all will work again. read more [Less]