Re: Writing a GNOME mail client. (fwd)

[bob kehs ksd org]

Forgot to send to the list :)

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Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 10:13:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: bob@kehs.ksd.org
To: Philip Trickett <philipt@informatic.ie>
Subject: Re: Writing a GNOME mail client.

not nessisary to do it through email... a simple address book api would
work... Althow I would like to recomend ldap... it was designed to do
exactly what is required for an adress book database... a simple front end
to ldap would work great.

On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Philip Trickett wrote:

> bob@kehs.ksd.org wrote:
> 
> > no, an exchange server would be a bad idea... a calander or a address book
> > server (maby even a bookmark server) would be a good thing but reinventing
> > the wheel is a bad thing... imap/pop works just fine so there is no reason
> > to make the grave mistake microsoft made when they made exchange...
> 
> What I meant was that it would be nice if we could actually look at contacts stored in public
> 
> folders etc. instead of just getting an email with the subject being th name of the contact.
> 
> I think that IMAP is probably the best email protocol that I have used, and if we could have support for disconnection, I
> 
> think that this could be a killer app.
> 
> Aside from this I agree that a calendar and scheduling server is probably needed.  Could this sort of thing be done via email?
> 
> Phil
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