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* casy mailing-list creation |
* casy mailing-list creation |
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* tags |
* tags |
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* presence - location |
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* presence - location & local time, through a P2P layer such as [http://thecircle.org.au/involved.html the Circle] |
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* global address book |
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* ditching the Re: and Fw: conventions, and moving them to the headers instead, along with hashes for each conversation so they can be properly threaded |
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Considering a four-step spam solution: |
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for in-network email: |
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* captchas required to send any msg |
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* hashcashs added to email headers |
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* a user-based dynamic ranking system |
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for regular email: |
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* integrating pyzor (collaborative spam filtering) and spambayes (bayesian spam filtering) |
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Bits and Pieces: |
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* [http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/0596000855/python2-CHP-11-SECT-4 pymailgui] |
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* [http://www.soul-less.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pyne/ pyne] |
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* [http://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/ pyaudio] |
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* Either pyQt or PyGTK as the GUI toolkit - perhaps pyQt due to cross-platform compatibility, with a frozen binary for systems without [http://www.trolltech.com/qt/ Qt]. |
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Tentative timeline: |
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* End of July: a running python email client with a GUI |
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* End of August: above, with encryption/compression/backend database support |
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* End of September: above, with P2P support and voicemail capabilities |
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More thoughts on why email still sucks: |
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http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2006/07/how-researchers-are-reinventing-mail.html |
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Generous thanks to [http://www.wingware.com Wingware] for their great IDE for Python. |
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Imran is looking for a nice name for the project, preferably a recursive name a-la GNU. |
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--[[User:Imr|Imr]] 14:54, 14 July 2006 (EDT) |
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[[Category:Software ideas]] |
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[[Category:Python]] |
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Revision as of 18:12, 18 September 2007
Offering Email through 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, Contacts, and maybe History. Voicemail capabilities will be added later utilizing the Speex codec (recording and playing back of voice messages).
Other ideas:
- captchas and hashcash to eliminate spam
- casy mailing-list creation
- tags
- presence - location