On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:53:33 -0500 David Dean wrote: [Edited] > Sadly, Emailer no longer meets my needs, ... I haven't been happy > with any email client since.
Tried Thunderbird? On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:03:16 -0500 chris wrote: [Edited] > 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). Why bother writing yet another email client from the beginning when the Thunderbird source is available for everyone (and anyone) to use and modify <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/build.html>? Yeah, I know it's more /fun/ writing your own from scratch :-) On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:28:09 -0500 David Dean wrote: > Of course that is the real problem. In addition, I doubt that I'd > have the time. As a professional developer, I would love the challenge. > Heck, my two favorite Mac programs have both been abandoned. Fat chance > of me ever having the money to fund my own pet projects. It would really > be worth it to not be coding for the dark side of the force. Sounds to me like the Mozilla Project is ideal for someone in your circumstances: put in as much time as you like, plenty of challenges available, open source projects can't be abandoned like Emailer, monetary concerns are taken care of already by the Mozilla Foundation, and if /anything/ threatens the "dark side" right now it's the Mozilla Project (Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird and the others). Plus, there is already an active community of developers and users you would join, including myself :-) > Maybe one night that I need to put my mind on something else for a while, > I'll actually plan out the requirements to write it from scratch. Anyone > have the manuals in PDF form? I have PDF manuals if you'd really like them. But I'd suggest that you both, David and Chris, take a look at Getting Involved with mozilla.org <http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/>, Mozilla Hacking in a Nutshell <http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/> and Mozilla Developer Central <http://www.mozilla.org/developer/> first. jwq ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
