Hypermail

Hypermail
Original author(s)	Kevin Hughes
Initial release	July 30, 1994
Stable release	2.4.0 / December 20, 2019
Written in	Mailing list archiver
License	GNU General Public License
Website	www.hypermail-project.org

Hypermail is a

mailing list archives, but it can archive any collection of emails. Originally written in 1994 by Tom Gruber using Common Lisp,^[2] it was rewritten in C by Kevin Hughes for its initial public release in 1994.^[1]

The mbox format is used by several

pine and Mozilla Thunderbird

.

Hypermail is operated at the

command line. It was originally intended for use in Unix-like platforms such as Linux. However, it is also possible to use the program in Microsoft Windows by compiling it with MinGW, or by using the Cygwin

library.

Building for Windows

It is possible to

native Windows program by using MinGW. However, certain modifications need to be made to the program's source code. Building Hypermail for Windows using MinGW

, by Israel G. Lugo, provides a patch to apply these modifications, as well as step by step instructions on how to accomplish the whole process and some usage examples.

Instructions are also available for creating the executable using Cygwin. Building HYPERMAIL on WIN32 with CYGWIN, by Bob Crispen, guides the user through the steps required, and offers a usage example as well.