[pmmail-list] PMMail: Pretty Good E-mail

[Tim Roberts]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:55:09 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:
>
>On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:58:16 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
>
>>I've now been using PMMail for 5 years, and it's only been in the last 
>>few months that I've >really itched to do it again (in Python with wxPython 
>this time).
>
>Are you gonna write you're own HTTP protocol stack and HTML 
>renderer too :^)   Add on a sevral man-years if so!

HTTP is trivially easy to handle, but in fact wxPython/wxWindows includes a 
wxHTMLWindow control that does an adequate job (adequate for e-mail, that is) 
of rendering HTML.

I noticed earlier in the month that the next version of PMMail is being 
written with wxWindows.  I assume they will be taking the same approach.

I currently have my mailer running in read-only form, for both plain and HTML 
parts.  I can browse the PMMail message tree or a Unix mailbox-style message 
tree (which is what I use for archiving).  I just need to add POP in, SMTP 
out, an address book, and a message composition window, and off I go.

>Of course you could always rely on a helper application (ie a web 
>browser) to show HTML pages (and Acrobat/Ghostview for PDFs, Word
>for DOCs) etc, just as God intended !!

Yes, indeed.  If wx didn't have that control, the rendering heart of Internet 
Explorer is embeddable as a windowed control.  I'd use that.


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- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
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