[wplug] Anyone Wanna Try A New Email Client?

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 07:29 -0400, Rob Knapp wrote:
> At any rate I'm trying to keep this initial roll out slow.  The code
> is GPL'd so I'm not going to trying get all NDA-ish but just ask
> nicely that you chose to limit who you share it with.

Understood.  You might want to put this near the top of your messages.

(I know, I have the same problem if being wordy and people don't always
read such statements.  Not everyone is like me and takes the time to
read your whole message just like they don't mine either. ;)

> All communication gets written to a database, so you can do search on
> all the content.  Also, if you go into the calendar component and open
> a time slot all emails/IM/irc's that you received in that time frame
> appear in addtion to iCal events.

Now this is a really "neat spin of various solutions" for a good set of
common problems.  That right there is why I want to try it myself!

Also, what DB are you using and what kind of size
constraints/limitations are you running into?

I myself kill Mozilla my amount of e-mail, and Evolution only works well
if I use IMAP (and even then its local indicies are rather big).

> Spam filtering is provided by spambayes on windows and bogofilter on
> mac/linux.
> Spell check is provided by aspell if you have it installed and on your
> path.

That's really a sweet and complete touch.  Nice job on usability all
around from what I saw in the video.

> So:  what do you need for it to run? 
> Python 2.5+
> PyQt4.2+
> [These are part of the windows installer...]
> That's pretty much it... the installer contains all the other
> libraries you need.
> On Windows: download Setup.exe and run it
> On Linux: download MrUCC-0.1-py2.5.egg, unzip and run "sudo python
> setup.py install"  this will install mrucc where  ever your python bin
> is installed.
> Mac:  The Mac app bundle is not quite ready yet, so I'm not uploading
> it.

I'll have to try this the weekend if I get time, or maybe I'll just
"make time."  ;)


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