Peter Kovacs wrote:
I think the request for a OpenOffice Mail Client has been placed repeatedly over time.
Yes, but it is due to a misleading analogy with what Microsoft does (or used to do) by incorporating a mail client into their Office suite.
The main mission of OpenOffice focuses on office productivity, and I think we are still good at that. The code is very monolithic and an external solution (Thunderbird being a natural choice) is more or less the only option that makes sense.
To be clear: This is a more year effort.
E-mail has moved to the cloud much faster than office productivity. Honestly, if we ever were to announce that OpenOffice would start actions for including a mail client in the (not immediate) future, this would be irrelevant to most people even among our own users.
In short, I think adding an e-mail client never made sense, and that this was irrelevant even when it was actually in the suite (not named OpenOffice yet), but it is even more irrelevant now.
If someone is going to join to help with creating an e-mail module, it would be better to put those energies to better use.
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