Hi Tony,

the "dogfooding" is what I am heading for, too :) 

So far, all approaches I found used POP and I wanted to stay with my IMAP workflow. 
So my current setup is the following (not ideal probably):

1.) http://www.offlineimap.org/ to synchronize my complete mailboxes to a MailDir structure. 
It can also synchronize changes to the MailDir structure back to the IMAP server
2.) Using CCMail (original: https://github.com/calmez/CCMail), I read in the MailDir structure 
and go on from there. Currently, I am evolving the tool at https://github.com/codeZeilen/CCMail

The setup has the advantage that the huge amount of data is not affecting the image directly. 
However, the synchronization outside of the image is cumbersome and the performance is not 
very good yet. All of these things are on my list and I am working on them :) 
I will keep you in the loop if you want to. 

Alternatively, there is a student project implementing an IMAP client (https://github.com/HPI-SWA-Teaching/IMAPClient). 
It currently can connect to servers and list emails. It still has some rough edges, but work will continue during the next few months.

Bests,
Patrick 
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From: Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> on behalf of Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at ccs.neu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 16:42
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Subject: [squeak-dev] Email with Squeak (was Re:  Work on object explorer)

Hi Patrick,

On 04/26/2017 08:11 AM, Rein, Patrick wrote:
> I stumbled on the missing double click handler when implementing a browser for my
> maildir structure. Dragging out should put the email as a morph in the world while
> double click should open the tool for reading emails. (see attached gif)

I'm very interested to see you are working on email in Squeak!

I'd like to increase my "dogfooding" of Squeak, and getting to the point
where I can do basic email tasks within the image seems a good first step.

I have tried Celeste recently, but it didn't immediately work and I
don't have the time at present to spend on getting it working.

Are your email tools publicly available anywhere I can follow along as
you develop them?

Regards,
  Tony