Welcome to the home of GoldED - A mail/news reader for Fidonet and Internet By Odinn Sorensen and Dirk A. Mueller.

Active development of GoldED+, the successor to GoldED is happening at http://asa.i-connect.ru with mirror at http://mik.nu/golded-plus/

The old code is hosted at

GoldED

GoldED is a full-featured mail/news reader for Fidonet and Internet. It is highly configurable, using plain text files. It supports a wide variety of messagebase formats, including JAM, Squish, *.MSG, Hudson, Goldbase, PCBoard, WildCat! and AdeptXBBS. GoldED is available for many platforms: DOS, DOS 32-bit, OS/2, Win32 and Linux. Currently GoldED runs only as textmode, but GUI versions are also planned.

The offical source release is currently at version 3.0.1 . The source code for 3.0.x and the in-development 4.x is released under the GPL and LGPL licenses.

Official binaries compiled by myself are available from this homepage. In between my official binary releases, co-developer Dirk A. Mueller releases his -damX series here on a regular basis. These releases can be treated as official bugfix releases. They are usually just as good, or bad, as my own ;-)

There are some notes about the source is here, and you can read some bits of history and personal notes here.

Downloads

These are the latest GoldED files for download:
*Platform*	3.0.1	3.0.Beta5	2.51	2.50
DOS16	GED301	GED300B5	GEDA1026	GED250
DOS32	GEX301	GEX300B5	GEXA1026	GEX250
OS/2	GEO301	GEO300B5	GEOA1026	GEO250
Win32	GEW301	GEW300B5	GEWA1026	n/a
Linux	GEL301	GEL300B5	n/a	n/a
Nodelist compilers	GEN301	GEN300B5	n/a	GEN250
Manual	GEM301	GEM300B5	GEMA1026	GEM250
Release notes	NOTE_301	NOTE_B5	NOTE1026	n/a
Source	All source and complete CVS tree.	n/a	n/a	n/a

You can find other GoldED files and third-party releated files here.

Screenshots

This is a typical screen when in reading mode in the OS/2 version: screenshot 1.

This shows the arealist in the Win32 version: screenshot 2.

GoldED 4.0 - The Next Generation

The next generation of GoldED is (or rather WAS) under development. Version 4.0 includes major rewrites of almost all parts of the program. Some planned highlights:

Totally rewritten message handling. Much faster and handles large messages with ease. Supports Unix mailboxes and news spools directly.
Complete offline and online internet mail and news reader capabilities, including full MIME support and attachments. Supports very flexible killfiles.
Advanced search capabilities, using regular expressions, wildcards, fuzzy search and plain text search in combination with logic expressions.
New configuration reader with increased flexibility and new rule-based area grouping system.
Menued configuration.
Rule-based automatic actions a'la killfiles.
Addressbook.
GUI.

There is uncompleted and non-compilable source for GoldED 4.x in the source package. The state of that code is that is has basically not been touched in about a year. There is some good development in it and it really deserves to get revived. It would, however, take a pretty major effort to get it running again. It is also lagging a bit behind in features that where added later in 3.0.x but not in the 4.x source.

Author Contact

Goldware International
Odinn Sorensen
Berings Gade 32, 2.th.
2630 Taastrup
Denmark, Europe

Voice

Links

If you have a page that you think should be linked here, please send me a mail and I'll consider it.

My co-author Dirk A. Muellers personal homepage, with a link to his GoldED information.
Check out my personal homepage.
There is a very nice unofficial GoldED home by "a group of some semi-mad people" :-)
Another place to look for GoldED files is on Bob Juge's ftp.juge.com in the U.S.A. Note however, that I don't maintain the directory on that site myself.
Fidonet Technical Standards Committee - www.ftsc.org