On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:53:04 +0200 pancake <panc...@youterm.com> wrote:
> The current state of my minimalist email solution is quite hacky and > incomplete > but is starting to be functional and usable. I plan to publish the hg > repo where > the source is being developed in a week or two.. > > Actually I have a pop3 implementation in 100 LOC and imap4 in 130LOC, > for smtp i have delegated the task to msmtp (i will write the smtp > protocol later), > and a main shellscript that manages all the rest. this will rewritten > to C at > some point. But actually i want the functionality. > > pop3/imap4 works on plain and ssl connections by using nc and > openssl. No extra security checks (like IP and certificate changes), > but this will be done soon too. > > There is no decent syncronization mechanisms, just basic folder > fetching from > pop3 and imap4. For the attachments Nibble will write a mime > packer/unpacker, > so this will be about 100LOC more. > > At the end I think that the first working version will be about > 1000LOC, but the code can be easily improved and cleaned up. But ATM > i'm priorizing the functionaility. > > About threads I think the best way is to grep for a subject and sort > by date. > The problem I see in threads is that you loss the timeline and for > long threads > you get just lines (no text) because of the recursively nesting > nature of the > threads. If you want to 'ban' somebody comments, its just another > grep filter > to the list, etc... > > I don't plan to add threading support at the moment, just plain and > filtered lists. > > The code of 'dmc' the 'dynamic mail client' that im actually writing > is going to > work only on *nix-based systems (no plans for w32 atm) > > About functionalities I dont want to chop any of them, but I want to > keep the > core as simple as possible, keeping the configuration minimal, and > make the core actions enought to be extended by user scripts. > > About the frontend..well i would like to write a simple gtk-based > GUI, but it > will relay on the core dmc. So it will be plain simple to write web > based interfaces, > commandline ones, or whatever. > > There's a long way to go, but half of it is already known :) > > --pancake > sounds great! Dieter
