5. License, credits, requirements, bugs, history, etc.

NewsLetter is freeware. Use it at your own risk. Also, currently it is a beta version, so use it carefully and make some tests before adoptate it as your favorite-tool-of-the-year.

The alma mater of NewsLetter is "sendEmail.pl", a very clever perl script designed by
Brandom Zehm. You can take a look to this and other works from him here.

I use a patched version of this script, called "sendEmailA.pl", modified by
Nicola Bandini, which adds support for authentication in smtp servers.

As this patched version required a perl module for base-64 encoding the user and password for authentication, I use a command-line tool called "encdec" 1.1, written ten years ago by
Jörgen Hägg, now recompiled and bundled within NewsLetter.


- Requirements

NewsLetter requires a valid email address to send the messages, and a Mac OS X installation, which should include by default all needed tools: OS X itself, Perl and some others.

NewsLetter has been tested only under Panther 10.3.2, but it should work in earlier versions.


- Bugs

Do you wanna report a bug? "This doesn't work please help" is not a report. First, read the entire documentation and the FAQ; make sure your system meets the requirements to run NewsLetter. If this doesn't help, send me a detailed report describing your problem: operative system, some sample files if needed, etc.


- History

NewsLetter 1.0b1, January 1, 2004
- First public release.