Morgen Sagen wrote:
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.
I'll admit that I thought the original IMAP server proposal sounded a little crazy at first. But at the same time I have long been touting how much work it is to make a full-blown UI for an e-mail client.
I'm now pretty convinced that making an IMAP server (especially given the Twisted implementation) is probably quite a bit less work than writing a whole e-mail client. I think it could make a great short term solution, plus provide a way to quickly mock up use cases of the sidebar within an existing e-mail client like Thunderbird.
For example, it would allow us to get the feel of what a real "virtual folder" is, show what a sidebar filled with tags looks like, and so fort. It would also make it easy to experiment with some kind of hierarchical tag list, or some other specialized hierarchy like Opera Mail has.
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