Sounds like I should look into this. The best mail client I’ve ever used was Eudora. How I miss Eudora.
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On Apr 30, 2018, at 10:01, tim Rowledge tim@rowledge.org wrote:
On 30-04-2018, at 2:07 AM, patrick.rein@hpi.uni-potsdam.de patrick.rein@hpi.uni-potsdam.de wrote:
Glad you brought that up Tim :) I am using email on a daily basis in Squeak.
This is very cool. I know Jecel uses Celeste and that's about it.
While there are still lots of things to fix, it works well enough to get most of my reading, writing and organizing of emails done. What I like most about having my emails in Squeak is how fast I can adapt things. For example, I have an extension for my email reader which checks the sender of an email and if the email comes from students it shows me the groups they are in. Building that extension took me about 10 minutes (mostly UI work).
Neat; that sounds really useful for workgroups etc. Filtering in the 'normal' manner by address is ok but we could actually lookup the address in assorted registries dynamically. And the usual content parsing - though there are (or were? possibly expired by now) patents about that.
From a technical perspective, I am using the email abstraction from the base system, a Python-based IMAP to maildir synchronization tool (https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap), and a maildir reader (https://github.com/codeZeilen/SMailDir). This way I can have objects for every email in my image and at the same time quickly access the content of most emails. If anyone is interested in setting this up for themselves I am happy to help.
I would love to change the synchronization process to a Squeak-based library at one point (some work is done by students at HPI https://github.com/hpi-swa-teaching/IMAPClient).
All we need to do (™) is add fetchers for tweets, messages, skype stuff, whatsapp, and so on. Easy! IPO next week!
tim
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