Re: Balsa Development Plans

[Stuart Parmenter <pavlov innerx net>]

Here's the current game plan:

we need to start working on libbalsa (or some other name for the mail library)

i've got a proposal that was written by Walt Armour which looks pretty good
that I will post on the web after we talk about a few more things.

libbalsa will replace libmutt and the current libbalsa, providing a awsome
mail library that can handle mbox, mh, maildir, pop3, imap, etc quickly and
efficiently.

Doing this should allow many of the "hacks" in the UI code to be removed and
done the right way.

things that are effected by this right now are:
  imap
    subscription, folder lists, etc.
  pop3
    delete from server
    feedback so we can do progress meters
  and others

Filters are being worked on, but rather slowly.  Feel free to email
jlbec@innerx.net (cc balsa-list) if you want to ask questions about filters or
anything filtering related.

I have been told that I will be able to print the canvas sometime, which will
allow for printing of messages.

We need to get spell checking worked into the compose window.  We also need to
allow for external compose editors like vim, emacs, etc.

Keyboard navigation needs to be worked on.  Could someone that maybe has
access to lots of different mail clients find out what keyboard things they
use for everything, and compile a big list, then see what keys are the most
common and we can use those?  Then possibly later, we can have a keyboard
mapping so we can allow people to pick a keyboard shortcut "set" that is the
same as some other mail clients.

Address book should be working shortly after the next release (0.5.0).

I hope this answers everyones questions about what is going on with balsa.

On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 03:58:40PM +0100, Knut Neumann wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Regarding the latest traffic on balsa here, I would suggest to set up
> something like a development plan. At leeast to me it seems like there are
> lots of people willing to help, but speaking for myself, it is hard to
> contribute code without knowing what the core developers would like to be done next.
> 
> That said: I may provide a patch (as soon as I found the time to make it
> work with the newest cvs-version) for a delete-mail-from-server-option for
> pop3 mailboxes .... if anyone is interested.
> 
> I am willing to contribute code in future (mainly for gui, or filters stuff
> because I must admit to have only basic skills in Unix-C...)
> 
> -Knut
> 
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