>Oh if only I could get the 
>source code and make a cocoa version of Emailer.

That would be MUCH MUCH harder then it seems.

There are whole chunks of Emailer that are provided by 3rd parties in the 
form of precompiled libraries. Each of those would need to also be 
brought up to date (good luck finding anyone from RadioMail much less the 
source code for their interface!), or removed entirely. And then you just 
have the basic Emailer code to deal with (and remember, since you didn't 
write it, you will have to first figure out the train of thought the 
programmers used and where things are, and why they are there).

And of course, then there are all the permission issues with having the 
rights to port Emailer (Apple isn't likely to give them to you, because 
they just don't want to talk about Emailer, and AOL isn't likely to give 
them to you, and then you have to deal with all the parts that belong to 
people or groups that don't exist any more, so you would have to track 
down the legal owners of the code, and secure new rights from them).

A few of us have looked into this over the years, and it has turned out 
to be one heck of a difficult task to accomplish (and so far, all of us 
have given up on the quest).

No, it would likely end up being easier to simply rewrite from scratch a 
cocoa email client that mimics Emailer's abilities then it would be to 
port Emailer itself. I've actually thought about doing this myself a few 
times... but alas, not enough spare time to spend on a project that has 
basically zero available market (ie: there will never be a noticable 
return on my invested time).

-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>

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