As John Welch has reminded us, IMAP is hard. I wonder if the smartest thing to do for a project like this would be to find an IMAP implementation that could be taken off the shelf and used as (or as the basis for) the engine underlying the app, rather than reinventing the wheel.
I am reminded by Kevin van Haaren that Mulberry Mail is now open-sourced under the Apache 2 license. (Not sure what the issues are there.) And as Kevin says, Mulberry's IMAP implementation is "the best." I honestly have no idea if it's good or not, and how connected it is to the Mulberry UI. (Admission: I've never used Mulberry.) But it seems to be that if IMAP is a tricky beast and the goal here is not to reinvent IMAP but rather to reinvent the Mac e-mail client app, perhaps kicking the tires on something else might be good in that it gets the work here to be less about IMAP and more about the e-mail experience itself. Anyway. -- Jason Snell / VP & Editorial Director, Macworld / [email protected] Office: 415-868-4341 / AIM: MW jsnell / twitter.com/jsnell _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
