Feature | Scribe |
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Windows 10/11 | Yes |
MacOSX 10.15+ | Yes |
Linux x64 | Yes |
POP3/SMTP/IMAP | Yes |
SSL Support | Yes |
Spam Filter | Yes |
Translations | Yes |
Address Book | Yes |
Calendar | Yes |
On Demand Component Install | Yes |
Receive Accounts | Unlimited |
Email Identities | Unlimited |
Email Filters | Unlimited |
Basic MAPI Export | Windows |
The Small Portable Email Client
Scribe is a small portable email client with an intergrated contact database and calendar.
It supports all the major internet mail protocols and uses international standards where
possible. Scribe doesn't required installing or uninstalled and can be used from a removable
drive without reconfiguration. It comes with a bayesian spam filter and translations to many
different languages. Updates are published regularly to respond to problems and to add features.
Because Scribe runs on Windows, Mac or Linux you can take your mail with you when you
change operating system. And don't worry about viruses, Scribe protects you from the usual
security holes in other email clients with it's own virus safe HTML control and
executable attachment protection.
Downloads
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Features
- Free Open Source Email Client
Scribe is free for everyone to use. No time limits, no nagging shareware banners or number of trials. Use it to your hearts content. - Spam Filter
Scribe has a built in bayesian spam filter that learns what type of email you consider to be "junk". Once it has a hundred or so spam to train on it can start filtering incomming spam automatically. As your collection of spam increases so does the accuracy of the bayesian filter. Until it reaches a maximum of about 98.5%. All the while producing very few if any false positives (i.e. wrongly classified mail you actually want to see). - Small
Scribe is quite a small download compared to a lot of applications. And even when downloaded takes up very little of your hard disk or memory while running. You can easily use Scribe from a portable drive like a USB flash card. - Fast
Startup and shutdown are generally quick. Typically taking only a second or two. Mail sends and receives go as fast as your net connection allows. No needless waiting around for things to happen (like Outlook). Because Scribe uses a flexible file formats for mail storage you can move email with huge attachments around with no effort at all, unlike some email clients that have to copy the entire email, including attachment to another file on disk causing unnecessary waiting for the user. - Easy
Scribe comes totally self contained. You can either use the installer version or just unzip the distribution file. To uninstall either use the uninstaller in the Programs menu or delete the folder the email client was unzipped into. There's no dll's left lying around to worry about. All the data and settings for scribe are stored in it's directory. This also makes it easy to back your email up. (Windows: Some registry settings are used to allow you to use Scribe as your default email client, these are removed by the uninstaller but aren't harmful if you delete the application) - Cross-platform
Scribe runs in Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Allowing users to maintain all their email and contacts in one place. Run the version of scribe for the OS your running and access the email received in another OS. - Up To Date
I've been releasing updates since the start of 1999 in response to bug reports and feature requests. Where possible requested changes are incorperated into an update. Releases are tagged "stable" or "unstable" to help you to pick a version suitable for your purposes. The unstable builds are public beta's for experienced users to test. - Multi-language
Scribe can be translated into any language. Here is some information about translating the user interface text into another language. So far Scribe has been translated into [d/m/yyyy]:
Language Code Last Update English en Native French fr Updated: v2.4.19, 27/4/2021 German de Updated: v2.1.24, 22/10/2016 Korean ko Added: v2.1.0, 24/4/2015 Polish pl Updated: v2.0.20, 9/3/2010 Russian ru Updated: v2.0.9, 18/2/2009 Swedish sv Updated: v2.0.6, 14/10/2008 Czech cs Updated: v1.89.22, 10/9/2007 Turkish tr Updated: v1.89.22, 10/9/2006 Lithuanian lt Updated: v1.89.21, 5/9/2007 Hungarian hu Added: v1.89.13, 28/2/2007 Portuguese pt Updated: v1.89.4, 15/6/2006 Luganda lg Added: v1.89.1, 9/2/2006 Brazilian Portuguese pt_br Updated: v1.89.1, 9/1/2006 Spanish es Updated: v1.89.1, 21/12/2005 Vietnamese vi Updated: v1.88.14, 11/11/2005 Farsi fa Updated: v1.88.14, 25/10/2005 Dutch nl Updated: v1.87, 21/12/2004 Serbian sr Updated: v1.87, 21/12/2004 Norwegian no Updated: v1.87, 2/8/2004 Japanese ja Added: v1.87, 1/1/2004 Chinese Traditional zh_tw Added: v1.87, 24/12/2003 Russian ru Added: v1.86, 14/2/2003 Italian it
Under windows the langauge will be read from the regional settings but if you want to override that then go into the appearence options and you can select a language there. You can also setup a LGI Config File to configure the user interface language for all Lgi apps globally. The translations will become less complete over time and new user interface components become available, which obviously won't have translations yet, so the version and date in the square brackets will give you some idea of how up to date the particular translation is. Also Scribe supports a wide array of character sets, especially when you install the iconv dll (see below). All the user interface allows unicode to be read and entered. - Safe
Scribe is not vunerable to email virus' because the HTML support is not provided by Internet Explorer but by a built in HTML control. The attachment list won't hide the real extension of a file either, which typically used by virus' to trick the user into openning an executable when the user thought it was a document. And if a virus does get in through by some other means, it won't be able to find your address book thus preventing it from mailing itself to all your contacts. Finally Scribe won't let you open a file from the attachment list when it has an executable image (PE or ELF) or has a standard scripting exetension (like .VBS on windows). This prevents users accidently opening virus' directly. If you have been sent a safe executable that you do need to run, then you can save it to disk and run it from there. - Interoperable
Scribe supports importing and exporting mail, contacts and calendar events to many open formats such as MBOX, .eml (single email), vCard, vCal/iCal and CSV (comma separated variables) contacts. Also support for proprietry formats and API's such as MAPI (only available only on windows), Outlook Express's MBX/DBX format and Eudora's address book is included. Scribe also has native support for converting winmail.dat attachments from Outlook user's into separate attachments that you can open or forward, which works even on Linux!
Building Scribe
To get the source code and libraries:
hg clone https://phab.mallen.id.au/source/scribeopensrc/ build/code/scribe/trunk_os cd build/code/scribe/trunk_os ./build.py
WindowsPrerequisites:
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LinuxPackage prerequisites:
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MacPrerequisites: In Xcode build 'build/code/scribe/trunk_os/mac/Scribe.xcodeproj' for archiving. Then export the software from there. Zip the Scribe.app bundle. |
Haikupkgman prerequisites:
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Trouble shooting and Debugging
If your having problems with Scribe please read these pages:
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Tutorials
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Related Pages
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Language/Charset Support Status
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Scribe Version History
3.x [Beta]
Download: 3.11 x64 [OSX, 20068K, 1/12/2024]
Download: 3.11 x64 [Linux, 11929K, 30/11/2024]
Download: 3.11 x64 [Windows, 6920K, 30/11/2024]
Download: 3.10 x64 [Windows, 6894K, 18/5/2024]
Download: 3.10 x64 [OSX, 19292K, 18/5/2024]
Download: 3.9 x64 [Windows, 6874K, 3/2/2024]
Download: 3.8 x64 [OSX, 13159K, 3/1/2024]
Download: 3.8 x64 [Linux, 11641K, 1/1/2024]
Download: 3.8 x64 [Windows, 6873K, 1/1/2024]
Download: 3.7 x64 [OSX, 13153K, 8/12/2023]
Download: 3.7 x64 [Linux, 11637K, 8/12/2023]
Download: 3.7 x64 [Windows, 6870K, 8/12/2023]
Download: 3.6 x64 [Linux, 11633K, 26/11/2023]
Download: 3.6 x64 [Windows, 6867K, 26/11/2023]
Download: 3.5 x64 [OSX, 13151K, 21/11/2023]
Download: 3.5 x64 [Linux, 11633K, 21/11/2023]
Download: 3.5 x64 [Windows, 6866K, 21/11/2023]
Download: 3.3 x64 [Windows, 6861K, 8/11/2023]
Download: 3.3 x64 [Linux, 11993K, 4/11/2023]
Download: 3.2 x64 [OSX, 13348K, 10/10/2023]
Download: 3.2 x64 [Windows, 6851K, 8/10/2023]
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1.88 [Stable]
1.87 [Stable]
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1.63 [Stable]
1.62 [Legacy]
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1.58 [Legacy]