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<node id="595831" title="Re: Describe your Dream WebMail App" created="2007-01-21 20:35:20" updated="2007-01-21 15:35:20">
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&lt;p&gt;My Dream Webmail app is the one I can almost be fooled into thinking isn't (a web app). Some recommendations I would make in this regard.
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&lt;li&gt;Sieve like filtering. If you support multiple folders then filtering mail on delivery rather than after discovering 500 new messages in INBOX would be great.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Try setting up a couple of accounts in Outlook, Evolution, Thunderbird and perhaps Kontact. Observe the things that you really hate about these apps - try to avoid them or at least find a better way to achieve them.&lt;/li&gt;
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I think the point I am making is don't limit your goals too early by focussing on 'WebMail'. You want to write an MUA from scratch , it just so happens the user interface is not Curses or gtk or &lt;em&gt;insert witticism&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; 
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&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;I can't believe it's not psellchecked&lt;/em&gt;
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