MailManager Developer Community

The MailManager software is developed as an Open Source project. This section of the site is for users and developers in the community. Many customers also choose to get involved in the community so that they can participate in the development of the product.

We make extensive use of Sourceforge the largest open source community site with more than a million members. Many of the links from this section will take you to Sourceforge and you will need to register with Sourceforge if you want to get involved with the MailManager project.

There are lots of ways to get involved, including:

Reporting bugs

Testing and reporting bugs is one of the most practical ways to get involved in the MailManager project.

We run an extensive test suite and perform significant end user testing prior to release, but we still need community input help to ensure the quality of the software. Your bug reports are very important to us.

Suggesting features

We try to plan MailManager development to include as many of the features suggested by users as we can. If you think we should improve the product in any way, we want to hear from you.

Contributing code or patches

If you want to contribute code you will need to fill in a Contributors Agreement to protect you and other users. MailManager itself is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) so you can be sure that your contributions will always be freely available. The GPL was certified by the Open Source Initiative as a license that complies with the Open Source Definition.

If you want to contribute code you will need to fill in a Contributors Agreement to protect you and other users.

Talk to us

Join us on the MailManager users or developers discussion lists, or on IRC (irc.freenode.net #mailmanager) between 10:00-17:00 GMT. It's good to talk!

Translation

Translating MailManager into your language is another great way to contribute. We will shortly move to co-ordinating translation activities via Rosetta, in the meantime, check out our internationalization guidelines.

Advocacy

If you like the project we would be grateful if could tell people about MailManager and vote for us on Freshmeat at http://freshmeat.net/projects/mailmanager/

Charitable donations

You can register your support for the project by making a charitable donation to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) through our Donation Page.