On Jan 14, 2006, at 3:57 PM, John Anderson wrote:
While I think Morgen's idea is intriguing, I don't think that he's
a very typical customer -- or if he is, Chandler's user base will
be almost zero. Most prospective customers don't need all the
features he does and would be quite happy with something that is an
improvement over Outlook Express or Thunderbird. To be better,
Chandler doesn't have to have all the same features of those
products, it just needs to do a better job of what most people need
most of the time.
John
Actually, when it comes to email feature requirements, I don't think
I'm out of the ordinary at all. There are some basic features that I
think just about anyone needs: HTML mail rendering, threaded-
conversation support, spam filtering, etc. If we're to ship
"something that is an improvement over Outlook Express or
Thunderbird" you have to ask yourself how many person-hours went into
developing those apps? In less than an hour I downloaded and tweaked
a Twisted-IMAP-server implementation and converted it to a Chandler
parcel. The next step will be to have it store emails as Chandler
items as opposed to Maildir storage.
Perhaps I should have rephrased my proposal as "a way to increase
Chandler adoption *until* we're a full blown email client." :-)
There's no reason we can't take both approaches, especially if
embedding an IMAP server is as simple as I suspect it is.
~morgen
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