Re: GNUMail

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

> My other thought was a different UI, maybe something more like GMail?
>
> I guess I am looking for thoughts to enhance GNUMail...

Well, I like GNUMail for what it is, a straightforward application. 
THis is why it is better than many competing clients. SO I'd rather 
not see it ruined.
On the other hand, GNUMail has many problems: it suffers from serious 
bitrot and on the other hand several things were never really 
completed. I speak about the nightly tarballs, which offer quite some 
improvments compared to the last "pre" release, but are beta-quality.
GNUMail tends to crash, it has problems with events (changing 
mailboxes...) IMAP support is sketchy sometimes. Ludovic blames that 
some servers are broken, which is probably true, but other clients 
work around this somehow.

As guidelines for development I'd look at some features Mail.app, 
Outlook or Thunderbird have, but without complicating the user 
interface if possible.

Better RTF/HTML support in emails. IN the future, integration with SWK 
could be very cool.

A spam filter! Spam has become a serious plague.

Better find.

But for the rest, not much to add. It works and some things are better 
left simple. If anybody is forced to use MS Outlook (not express) then 
he knows what I fear.

At the end, if you look, apple's Mail stays reasonably simple and it 
is wonderful so.

Riccardo