This is my personal opinion, from what I've read, without trying IOS. But you might want to use REBOL/Core (for a text interface) or REBOL/View (for a gui) for your mail client. I don't really think you need IOS for all of that. My impression of IOS is that it's a whole suite of programs and systems and such. REBOL/Core and REBOL/View are free to work with and such (though REBOL/View/Pro costs a few bucks). There's also REBOL/Command for a couple hundred bucks, for the pros out there. If all you're after is a thin mail client, I think /Core or /View would be plenty. You could even use an HTML interface to /Core code, so you don't have to learn any new GUI coding (not that /View is all that difficult).
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ammon Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:36 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: using Rebol for mail client app > Hi and Welcome to REBOL! > > REBOL is perfectly fitted for your application in every way!! REBOL does > amazing things for networking & is definitely designed to run, as you > mentioned, as *thin client*. > There have been a few starts at actually building a mail client, but the > developers have gotten to busy to be able to continue to contribute to the > project. There was a current attempt (within the last 6 months), the project > was practically killed by, or around the time of Sept. 11. But the mail list > still remains, [EMAIL PROTECTED], it is a Yahoo! Group. You are welcome to > join the group, & contribute any time that you may have available to the Open > Source project. I intend to get back to the project when/if I can. > > HTH > Ammon > CIO > Tricom Communications > > A short time ago, Boris Garbuzov, sent an email stating: > > We are kindly asking experts' opinions on this list about reasonability of > > using Rebol technology for mail client app. > > The whole list of possibilities includes HTML, applet, JavaWebStart, Flash, > > IFRAME, Rebol IOS, WebCream, Maui. Can briefly comment on basic > > capabilities of your IOS? After reading short description on your web site > > I am under impression that it is some inter-organizational environment like > > Lotus Notes or FiloSafe to share data and services. What we are looking for > > is some base technology (like applets were intended to be) to run our thin > > client application for paid customers across the web. Sincerely yours, > > Boris. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. > -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
