Talk:Projects/xomail

I think your understanding of Tinymail is flawed. Tinymail is mostly a set of back-end tools for constructing a front-end, not really a working client. The default client probably would work on Sugar, but to my knowledge no-one has done the work to install it and get it running (significantly, the compile options for "OLPC" and those for include-python-bindings are separate, which makes me wonder what "OLPC" means); thus it would be stretching the truth to call it "working". I have never programmed an email client, but I would imagine that, between the pain of learning to use a toolkit which already has python bindings (tinymail) and the pain of making a compatible email client from scratch, you'd probably be better off with the former. Email has been around for decades and the important protocols are definitely more byzantine than they should be. And yes, just put it in whatever box tinymail gives you, and do the indexing yourself.

Certainly, it would be worth evaluating tinymail as opposed to python's standard libraries.

But feel free to ignore me, that is just my opinion.

Homunq 17:15, 1 April 2008 (EDT)