Hi Munroe, Thanks for your kind words about the project.
I think one of the things people often don't realize about the Bongo system is that it is designed very differently to e.g. a traditional MTA setup. So, while on the face of it your comments about re-inventing existing software are apt, the reality is actually somewhat different. For the most part, we don't do the same stuff as existing software. There is no equivalent of the MTA within Bongo for example; our outgoing SMTP support is literally 700 lines of probably slightly bloated code. Although we have support for various SMTP-type facilties; in reality we don't have close to the feature set of postfix nor do we intend to develop our SMTP software to that extent. Similarly, we offer a variety of features which "traditional" UNIX software doesn't (and, actually, can't). Our e-mail and calendar servers are properly integrated, for example, so an incoming event invitation received via e-mail can land straight in your calendar; it doesn't require a "fat client" to do that. Just yesterday I added (actually, tweaked, but..) a feature in our store which allows us to associate any document in the store with any other, which no traditional server can do, because the data are all stored in separate silos. This "no-silo" approach also allows us to do things like full text search across all your data. What we are trying to do is very ambitious, and one of the reasons we haven't made enough releases is because we have more ambition than developer :) But there isn't really a smaller job that we can do on the way: we're doing something with a very different design, and a lot of the pieces have to be in place before it will actually make a usable tool. Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Bongo-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/bongo-users
