This application will serve as an Email and Message Board reader for use mainly
with BBS services. Currently working on setting up build/release automation.

• VS Code
  • Tauri
  • rust-analyzer
  • Rome

Starting this as a project as most qwk and nntp readers generally suck and/or
are antiquated. Thunderbird is all but completely unusable with NNTP +
Synchronet and QWK Readers are also somewhat dated, and I found multimail didn’t
work correctly for me out of the box.

I want a GUI based message reader for BBS message boards with a modern UI/UX.
I’m using Rust on the backend to learn the language, and because I think it’s a
good choice, generally speaking. I’m using Tauri with a browser based UI because
I’m very comfortable with browser based UI/UX and want to reduce the friction on
the UI from what I will experience in learning the backend.

I will make a best effort to write clear, discoverable code. This project may or
may not follow best practices. On the backend, because I’m learning as I go.
On the frontend, because I’m probably going to be taking shortcuts as a faster
path to done.

I probably won’t try to integrate into any release prospects until after I have
an MVP of NNTP and Email (SMTP/POP) at the very least. I will be testing this
against my own BBS, which runs Synchronet. I may also create extended support
for some services specifically with Synchronet (ANSI User Icons and Polls).

Longer term, after MVP, but before enhanced rendering I will make an effort to
get updating releases into the various stores for OS use… I will likely limit
Linux to Flathub and possibly Snapcraft, but unlikely to do any distro
integration beyond this.

High level TODO list. Note: Anything before 1.0 can have breaking changes at any
time regardless of the version.

• Release Tracking (release-please)
• React + MUI front end
  • BBS Configuration Entry
• Communication to/from Rust backend
  • Save/Load BBS Configuration Entries
  • Figure out settings/data path(s)
  • SQLite in Rust
• NNTP Group List
• NNTP Group Subscribe
• NNTP Fetch Headers/Bodies
• Display Message List (flat)
  • Classic 3-pane layout
  • Groups/Forums on left
  • Message List on upper-right
  • Message+Header lower-right
• Display Message Header
• Display Message (flat/plain text)
• Purge Old/Read Support
  • Database vaccuum
• Github Release Binaries (0.5.x)
  • Windows
    • x86_64 (msi, exe)
    • x86_64 offline (include web component, large) (msi, exe)
  • Mac
    • x86_64 (dmg, .app.tgz)
    • aarch64 (dmg, .app.tgz)
  • Linux
    • x86_64 AppImage
    • x86_64 .deb
    • armv7 AppImage
    • armv7 .deb
    • aarch64 AppImage
    • aarch64 .deb
• Automated updates (0.6.x)
• E-Mail (smtp/pop) (0.7.x)
• Enhanced rendering (ansi/colors, etc) (0.8.x)
• MVP Release v1.0
  • automated updates
  • Will test in v0.9.x and Push 1.0 when working/tested
• Store integrations
  • WinGet
  • Windows Store
  • Apple Mac Store
  • Flathub
  • Snapcraft?
• QWK Support
• FTP for QWK
• Message Attachments

MIT License