Talk:Tinymail

Tinymail is too fat

Tinymail supports SMTP, POP, IMAP and local message stores like mbox, mh, spool and Maildir. Tinymail also has its own local format.

This is way too much for OLPC.

To begin with, the OLPC only needs one message store format which should be shared with all applications which use a message store. Given that the 2B1 runs a multitasking OS, it would be best for this message store to be something that can handle multiple processes accessing it at once. If file locking (or record locking) is too complex, the the message store should be owned by a simple daemon which serves all applications.

Then, the question of network protocols comes to bear. There is not much point in supporting POP and SMTP and IMAP. IMAP itself might make sense, especially if it is extended to have a SEND operation, but the fact still remains that the 2B1 will not have access to a traditional server infrastructure.

The concept of having an application that allows one to manage their received messages archive does make sense, but it needs to be better integrated with the OLPC concepts of networking which means a mesh network, built-in instant messaging and no servers.