On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 21:01:10 -0700 Jonathan Neufeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
JN> I'm interested in adding to the development effort for the Mahogany JN> e-mail client. Hello, Glad to hear this, we'd certainly appreciate help with its development! JN> I developed a proprietary e-mail client for ApexMail.Net JN> a few years ago that was designed to link directly to their webmail JN> service and incorporate custom features, so I can assure you I have JN> experience in writing e-mail software as well as all the necessary JN> fundamentals (8 years of C/C++ programming, 6 years of Java JN> programming). That sounds great although Java probably wouldn't be very useful on this project ;-) JN> Would you please tell me more about getting involved with this project? The basic question is whether there is something you'd like to work on? In practice, if you know what you want to do and are motivated in doing (which probably means that you should be using Mahogany yourself as otherwise why would you?), the chance of implementing it successfully is much higher. But if you don't have any precise plans there are several relatively independent sub projects which are in our TODO but on which nobody works yet. In no particular order, they are: - adding spell checker to the composer - adding support for PGP/GPG signing/encryption (we have only checking signatures and decreyption) - many things to do with address book: . new more efficient format is needed . better (G)UI for the ADB editor . LDAP address book provider . support for storing ADBs on IMAP server - working on exposing Mahogany API via Python and maybe other languages and so on. If anything in this list looks attractive to you, please discuss it here. BTW, you should really subscribe to this list because otherwise all your messages must be explicitly approved (this is an anti spam measure, sorry). In any case, the first thing to do is to get Mahogany sources: http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~zeitlin/Mahogany/mahogany-latest.tar.gz or from anonymous cvs and build them (you need VC5/6/7 for this under Windows). Hopefully this should work without any troubles, but if you have any, please ask here, as usual. When you have a working development environment we should discuss what are you going to be working on. Looking forward to hearing more from you! VZ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
