Re: Magellan, the KDE e-mail integrated system

["Matt Craun" <fantamos excite com>]

an Linux email system that intergreated all systems included Outlook would
be cool....
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 18:52:06 -0400, Russell Steinthal wrote:

> Just a thought about this nascent Outlook/Magellan-clone effort: 
> before you go off duplicating effort, don't forget the code that we 
> already have: gnome-pim and Evolution, in particular.
> 
> Evolution (formerly gnome-mailer) in particular is significant in 
> large part because, other than the fundamental notion of a "view" 
> based mailer, I don't think they've started planning or working on 
> the actual UI.  Since you'll probably want to leverage Bertrand's 
> Camel library anyway, I'm not sure what gain there is to be had from 
> running two mailer efforts at this point (at least until you reach an 
> impasse on UI issues or the like).
> 
> I think the idea of an integrated messaging/PIM system is intriguing 
> (although I find Outlook baffling, but that's just because I was 
Outlook is not baffling....I use it from time to time....its not a good
system. It could be better

> thrown into supporting it recently), but it seems to me that you 
> should be able to do it without rewriting a mail client and PIM from 
> scratch.  (Especially since the mailer is new enough that you can 
> build in support for integration almost from the beginning)
> 
> Of course, if all you were planning to do all along was to integrate 
> (using Bonobo?) gnome-pim and a mailer, feel free to ignore this 
> message.  :)
> 
> -Russell
> 
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> Russell Steinthal		Columbia Law School, Class of 2002
> <rms39@columbia.edu>		Columbia College, Class of 1999
> <steintr@nj.org>		UNIX System Administrator, nj.org
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I had to hit him -- he was starting to make sense.




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