After Jim and Volker's email presentations, I've been thinking. How hard would it be to write an MDA that stores mail in a database? I'm thinking of something gmailesque, with labels and conversations (threads) and stuff.
Next, how hard would to be to write a mail client to use with this maildb? Just thought I'd throw it out there for people to pick apart, and hopefully I can learn the skills to build this one day. What would I need to learn? The last serious coding I did was over ten years ago using TurboBasic and TurboPascal. I can write a "hello world" program in C++ I reckon I can teach myself SQL. Would such an MDA be best written in Perl, Python, Pike, C++ or something else? The mail client would ideally be a GUI app or a web app. I guess that might need something like PHP? How big a project would this be? Yuri
