>
>Outlook was a fresh rewrite by jud and some of the other people on the
>Emailer team that were hired by Microsoft just before and after the
>closing of Claris. Needless to say, it was basically a modernized
>Emailer without the AOL support... hard to improve on such a wonderful
>program.
exactly....
>
>I was the engineer that did the original installer on Emailer 2.0v3. As
>such, I was able to see the source for some of the Emailer project.
> From what I could tell, AOL handed Claris a couple of compiled
>libraries along with some instructions on how to call them and Claris
>handled the rest.
And thanks to the DCMA, it is illegal to try to reverse engineer the AOL
mail aspects. ;-)
>
>obvious reasons) not coming forward anytime soon. In fact, I know that
>one of them has been trying to carbonize the Emailer source so that it
>would work in OS X, but there has not been a real concerted effort to
>do this due to job and time constraints. I suppose that if we could get
>enough carbon savvy developers together that we could find a way to
>coordinate the development effort and release an "updater" for Emailer
>that would take it to 2.0v4... in fact, I'd be happy to do the
>installer work to make this happen.
Are you saying that this project *could* happen? I was under the
impression that "no way in hell" would Apple ever allow Emailer to be
updated, even if it could hand the source to third parties who would give
it back to Apple for free. That would be wonderful, and I bet there are a
few developers who would love the project of Carbonizing Emailer - even
for a shareware donation fee.
The other problem is Apple won't sell Emailer anymore, so it is only
useful for those who legally own a copy... I seriously doubt Apple would
release Emailer as a free product if there were a 2.04 updater - if they
would, it would be heaven! Maybe this is a question for a WWDC Q&A
session. ;-)
>
>Regrettably, I have to admit that I've switched over to Mail in OS X as
>Emailer is having too many difficulties with html e-mail from my
>friends to stick with another classic application. My dear friend has
>been relegated to occasional use when I need to access really old stuff.
>
Mail has its own problems, and will simply "lose" mail when it gets
upset. Plus, it cannot turn off html, attachments are stuck in container
hell, and generally it is a package for ultralightweight users, IMO. I
use Emailer as hard as one can, with 5000-10000 deleted emails a month,
400MB database container, and it has been corrupted since 1998, but has
not spread, and is totally reliable except for the problems of not being
able to create fully working new folders, and a few other hassles. No
other program is as simple for managing 20+ email accounts, that I have
seen. Eventually, I will switch also, but it will be to something which
does not exist today.
"Many times a day I realize how much my own inner and outer life is
built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and
how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much
as I have received."
- Albert Einstein
Mark James
SoftRAID, LLC
mjames@ softraid.com
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