[Fwd: Writing a GNOME mail client.]

[Philip Trickett <philipt informatic ie>]

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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Philip Trickett, Electronic Systems Manager     philipt@informatic.ie
Marine Informatics, 64 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2. Republic of Ireland
Tel:+353-1-475-2924 Fax:+353-1-475-2952 http://www.informatic.ie/marine/
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