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How should email be offered on the laptops?
How should email be offered on the laptops?


OLPC intern [[http://www.akbars.net/blog Imran Akbar]] is working on a prototype email client written in Python. It will initially utilize existing POP/IMAP servers to store messages, and use a keyserver for GPG encryption and zlib compression built-in. The GUI interface will be simpler, with three tabs on the left: Mail and Contacts... voicemail capabilities will be added later utilizing the Speex codec.
OLPC intern [[http://www.akbars.net/blog Imran Akbar]] is working on a prototype email client written in Python. It will initially utilize existing POP/IMAP servers to store messages, and use a keyserver for [[http://www.gnupg.org/ GPG]] encryption and zlib compression built-in. The GUI interface will be simpler, with three tabs on the left: Mail and Contacts... voicemail capabilities will be added later utilizing the [[http://www.speex.org Speex]] codec.


Other ideas:
Other ideas:
* Captchas and Hashcash to eliminate spam
* Captchas and Hashcash to eliminate spam
* Easy list creation
* asy list creation
* tags
* tags
* presence - location & local time
* presence - location & local time
* global address book
* global address book

Bits and Pieces:
* [[http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/0596000855/python2-CHP-11-SECT-4 pymailgui]]
* [[http://www.soul-less.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pyne/ pyne]]
* [[http://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/ pyaudio]]

http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2006/07/how-researchers-are- reinventing-mail.html


Generous thanks to [[http://www.wingware.com Wingware]] for their great IDE for Python.
Generous thanks to [[http://www.wingware.com Wingware]] for their great IDE for Python.

Revision as of 18:38, 14 July 2006

How should email be offered on the laptops?

OLPC intern [Imran Akbar] is working on a prototype email client written in Python. It will initially utilize existing POP/IMAP servers to store messages, and use a keyserver for [GPG] encryption and zlib compression built-in. The GUI interface will be simpler, with three tabs on the left: Mail and Contacts... voicemail capabilities will be added later utilizing the [Speex] codec.

Other ideas:

  • Captchas and Hashcash to eliminate spam
  • asy list creation
  • tags
  • presence - location & local time
  • global address book

Bits and Pieces:

http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2006/07/how-researchers-are- reinventing-mail.html

Generous thanks to [Wingware] for their great IDE for Python.