You could easily use the back-end parts, that is, the various
MIME handlers, the mailbox and message access code, etc. However,
you'd probably have to redo all the user interface code.
I seem to recall that balsa actually goes this way. You may wish to
have a look at it as a starting point.
On 1999-10-14 14:48:39 +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:48:39 +0300
> From: Mikko Hänninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Mutt List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: GUI for Mutt (was: GUI PGP/MIME mailers?)
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> Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 14 Oct 1999:
> > Also, how hard will it be to write a GUI front-end of mutt? I
> > would love to join in such a project. Let's write one that looks
> > exactly the same as outlook.
>
> I'm not sure if that was suggested as a joke, but this would be
> something I'd very much like to see. I'd love to have a GUI X client
> with all of Mutt's capabilities (I don't think there's anything like
> Mutt as GUI client, is there? With send-hooks, list support,
> quadoptions, etc.). Unfortunately I couldn't really help with the
> coding part as I've no experience with GUI programming.
>
> I wonder how easy or difficult it would be to create a GUI application
> that would live as a patch or something and would sit on top of the
> standard Mutt sources?
>
>
> Hmm, this probably belongs more to the mutt-dev list, but since I'm not
> subscribed to that, my apologies for posting it here...
>
> Mikko
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