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From: Steve Hodgson on 6 Mar 2010 11:03 On 2010-03-06 15:28:22 +0000, Chris Ridd said: > On 2010-03-06 14:39:36 +0000, Tim Hodgson said: > >> Steve Hodgson <hamrun(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm holding out for Letters.app, the possible open source IMAP mail >>> client from Brent Simmons, Gus Mueller and John Gruber. >> >> Me too, but it's got to be a long way off atm. > > Very much so. I suspect (and fear) it isn't going to happen, because > none of them know how to organize a project with more than 1 developer. > Also they don't understand IMAP and SMTP fully. It may also turn out to be a very quirky client if it ever appears. Still given John Gruber's liking for Mailsmith I might get on with it. -- Cheers, Steve The reply-to email address is a spam trap. Email steve 'at' shodgson 'dot' org 'dot' uk
From: Steve Hodgson on 6 Mar 2010 11:04 On 2010-03-06 14:39:36 +0000, Tim Hodgson said: > Steve Hodgson <hamrun(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm holding out for Letters.app, the possible open source IMAP mail >> client from Brent Simmons, Gus Mueller and John Gruber. > > Me too, but it's got to be a long way off atm. Think so too. I did wonder about trying Entourage, but... Mmmm. -- Cheers, Steve The reply-to email address is a spam trap. Email steve 'at' shodgson 'dot' org 'dot' uk
From: Chris Ridd on 6 Mar 2010 11:47 On 2010-03-06 16:27:23 +0000, Tim Hodgson said: > Steve Hodgson <hamrun(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2010-03-06 14:39:36 +0000, Tim Hodgson said: >> >>> Steve Hodgson <hamrun(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm holding out for Letters.app, the possible open source IMAP mail >>>> client from Brent Simmons, Gus Mueller and John Gruber. >>> >>> Me too, but it's got to be a long way off atm. >> >> Think so too. >> >> I did wonder about trying Entourage, but... Mmmm. > > I've managed this long without MS Office, I'm not cracking now! > > (Actually, my partner uses Entourage and it seems pretty good. Didn't > some of the Claris Emailer developers end up working on Entourage?) That's right. However it suffers from using a huge slow monolithic database to store everything in, which makes it very unfriendly to Time Machine. Microsoft are replacing it in the next Mac Office with Outlook. -- Chris
From: Steve Firth on 6 Mar 2010 12:15 Tim Hodgson <thnews(a)poboxmolar.com.invalid> wrote: > Then there's Thunderbird, but god it's ugly... > > Any opinions? I use Thunderbird. Yes, it's ugly. It's also flawed but it's less horrible than many alternatives.
From: Martin S Taylor on 8 Mar 2010 02:50
Chris Ridd wrote > Also they don't understand IMAP and SMTP fully. This strikes me as a handicap for someone writing an IMAP client. MST |