Re:Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of ...
by stevekemp on Sunday September 23, 2018 @12:48PM
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> in months time frame.
I'm going to assume you meant you could start in a month, rather than be completed in a month, because otherwise I'd like to save you some pain!
I wrote a mail client, two actual, focussed upon the console. (Think "scriptable mutt".) Writing a mail-client is hard. Partly due to the sheer amount of bogus mails you'll get, and partly due to people having very firm beliefs about what they want.
The user-interface is the easy part. More important is to design how you're going to work - Originally I allowed something similar to google's tagging, so you could "open a folder" which contained mail from multiple Maildir collections. It was not a success.
Using a database to store your state is a cheap alternative, but risks issues getting outdated if you ever interact with the mail outside your program. You either have to force an "indexing" step - like notmuch does - or scan the filesystem tree. Neither of those approaches are great, for obvious reasons.
(Also God help you if you want to work with remote IMAP servers. Standards? What are they!)
I'm going to assume you meant you could start in a month, rather than be completed in a month, because otherwise I'd like to save you some pain!
I wrote a mail client, two actual, focussed upon the console. (Think "scriptable mutt".) Writing a mail-client is hard. Partly due to the sheer amount of bogus mails you'll get, and partly due to people having very firm beliefs about what they want.
The user-interface is the easy part. More important is to design how you're going to work - Originally I allowed something similar to google's tagging, so you could "open a folder" which contained mail from multiple Maildir collections. It was not a success.
Using a database to store your state is a cheap alternative, but risks issues getting outdated if you ever interact with the mail outside your program. You either have to force an "indexing" step - like notmuch does - or scan the filesystem tree. Neither of those approaches are great, for obvious reasons.
(Also God help you if you want to work with remote IMAP servers. Standards? What are they!)