[maemo-developers] Modest/TinyMail problems (continue from the blog comments)

[From: Philip Van Hoof]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 10:00 +0100, Graham Cobb wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 June 2008 01:10:28 Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > Polymer does a similar thing to Mulberry. 
> 
> I also have some very large folders and I liked the Polymer approach a lot.  
> It is a shame the author doesn't have the time/resources to turn it into a 
> full-featured mail application.  Personally I want a, primarily, online mail 
> program (with a few offline features: I would like to be able to download 
> specific messages for reading offline, and would like to be able to create 
> emails offline), designed for large, and fairly rapidly changing mailboxes.
> 
> I haven't tried Modest yet but will do so as soon as I install Diablo as it 
> sounds like it is at least a step in the right direction.

The right direction would be a guy like Dave together with me writing a
nice Tinymail-API like library, and the guys who wrote Modest adapting
that UI to use that.

Who knows, some day? ;-)

One problem with Infotrope is of course the Python part of it. It's not
really cool to have to resort to IPC to talk to it in a reasonably easy
way from Vala, C or C++. infotroped.py ? :) maybe ...

But as pointed out did Dave mostly made the E-mail clients for
experiments (at least afaik).

If somebody would pick it up, I'm sure he'd fully support making Telomer
and Polymer full featured E-mail clients indeed. 

Problem is that relatively a lot of people think to know how their
E-mail client must be done, but relatively few people will put their
energy in it too.

:-)


ps. Adding Dave in CC again. 


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