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 # Apache Pony Mail (Incubating)
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+**Development on this project has shifted to [incubator-ponymail-foal](https://github.com/apache/incubator-ponymail-foal)**. This repository is now deprecated.
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 <img src="https://github.com/apache/incubator-ponymail/blob/master/site/images/logo_large.png" align="left"/><br/><br/>
 Apache Pony Mail (Incubating) is a web-based mail archive browser
 licensed under the Apache License v/2.0 and built to scale