OK, Rephrasing the Questions - Something New

[Steve Lamb]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 12:41:07PM +0100, Simon Bowring wrote:
> Steve's probably got some ideas about what the best open source
> clients are (Steve?).

    Well, if I were a C wizard (which I'm not, which is why AIMS is in Python
and starting from scratch) I'd take mutt as a base.  The client itself is
solid as a rock and the functionality is there, just some of the nicer things
(to me and others on this list) are missing.

> You could target X (which is messy and tricky to program), but this
> largely limits you to Unix (I know OS/2, VMS etc have X too).

    Unless you program to a toolkit which is also ported.  TK comes to mind.
;)

> pay the very heavy memory resource usage and slow load time penalties 
> that Java introduces.

    Are we loaded yet?  Nope, more cawfee!

> What I would like to see is a set of open source core modules that
> implement the raw "mail" handling in a modular and extensible way, 

    Python.  ;)

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