On 08-02-2014, at 2:33 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. <jecel at merlintec.com> wrote:

> Tim Rowledge pondered:
> 
>> A decent email facility. I have this vague recollection that Celeste still
>> exists and some one even uses it?
> 
> This was typed in Celeste, which has been my only email client since
> late 2004. I have a bunch of fixed which I haven't shared since they are
> some of the worst code ever written because crashes always happen when I
> am in a hurry to reply to an email. There are lots of low hanging fruit
> to make less unreasonable, but a new client might be a better option.

I thought it might be you. We all know Jecel is quite, quite mad…

> 
>> Again, in a boot-to-Scratch Pi it could be interesting to provide an email
>> system. And maybe use Scratch scripting to add rules to it for sorting and
>> filing and stuff? And given the utter balls-up that Apple have made of their
>> email app in Mavericks recently, maybe now is the time do a good version
>> that non-Squeakers would use!
> 
> Most people I know currently use web based mail services. I have
> experience with two (Zimbra and SmartMail) and prefer Celeste.

I think I’d prefer the original release of Marcel (circa 1995, http://www.riscos.com/the_archive/rol/faqs/antsuite.htm) to pretty much any web based email I’ve ever yet seen.

But thinking of Better Email Apps - I want more. I want all my communications in one easy to follow list. Email of course, but tweets, skype texts, SMS, Messages err messages, Facetime video & audio, everything. I have email and iChat mixed conversations lasting years and one has to know that some of the stuff is in iChat files and some in emails. Stupid!

Give me a proper database of all my messages of whatever form and a decent way to read/view/edit them. Handle the best available communication route - if someone is only on twitter, send a long email or video message by a means that will work with them.

tim
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