CryptoMail Newsletter

Welcome to the first issue of the CryptoMail Newsletter, we would like to share our most exciting news and events that are going on in the CryptoMail.org with you.

Dogfood

Interim software used internally for testing.  "To eat one's own dogfood" (from which the slang noun derives) means to use the software one is developing, as part of one's everyday development environment.  The practice is normal in the Linux community and elsewhere, but the term 'dogfood' is seldom used as open-source betas tend to be quite tasty and nourishing.  The idea is that developers who are using their own software will quickly learn what's missing or broken.  Dogfood is typically not even of beta quality.

Stan (Stan Osborne) has successfully created an account and logged in.  (only because he had access to a 2 bit doz machine) Stan, our sendmail champion, has resolved some major issues with the sendmail server.  We can now actually use what we have written.  It's yummy dogfood.

Documentation Updates

We have made all of our documents in Online HTML, Zipped Multi-file HTML, PDF and Text file formats for our CryptoMailer to get the most out of our Email System.  Currently, we are in the progress of drafting the Client/Server Manual for advanced users and system administrators, and the HOWTOs Sendmail to answer some of the most technical questions about setting up the CryptoMail Email System with your Sendmail.

For the most recent updated documentation, you can check them out in the Documentation and FAQs section.

New Source Code Release

People in CryptoMail.org is filled with joy to announce that the first public release version of the CryptoMail Email System, our prime open-source project, is available to the general public in the United States.  Though everyone in the CryptoMail.org would wish to release the source code to everyone around the world, the U.S. export laws are restricted us to limit the boundary of this release.

We are working on obtaining the export permission from the U.S. government.  As soon as such permission is grained, we will post it in our website.

Email Client in Mac

With the kindest donation from the Center For Electronic Art, developers in CryptoMail.org is able to develop our client to work on Mac which we have identified with some problems of the long integer for the client's Java Applet.  We expected to resolve the problems in the coming year, when we start to develop or to debug some of our code for the Mac.

Setting Up Internet Mail

While the CryptoMail Email System takes Sendmail as its mail agent for all its Internet mail, the procedure of setting up this feature could be complicated, especially for systems that have virtual Email account and/or multi domain name machine.  In CryptoMail.org, our system administrator has configured our Sendmail to perform as the Email System's mail agent, and we plan to document the technical issues and steps for this procedures which allow you to the Email System for Internet mail.

If your organization needs to setup our Email System for your Internet mail, we recommend that you should go to www.sendmail.org for documentation about mapping to a particular user (the Email Server).

New Members

CryptoMail.org is very pleased to have Mr. Andres Ramirez (andrespr@mycode.com) as our first member who contributed his time and talent to us by providing the new and attractive look of our website.  With his brilliant design, CryptoMail.org is one step closer to become one of the best Dot Org in the Internet.  Board of Directors would love to give their deepest gratitude to Mr. Ramirez.  You can find more of his killer design at http://www.mycode.com.