[haiku-development] Re: Ready to go for R1/Alpha4 yet?
- From: pulkomandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 09:45:51 +0200
On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 12:52:11AM +0200, Ingo Weinhold wrote:
> > Anyway, the Mail Daemon is just one way to manage your mails. There are
> > 3rd party apps that may suit some people better, and most mail providers
> > have webmails anyway.
> > But I like to have the mail daemon hanlding mail, if only for showing
> > the query support with some mail files.
>
> Unless I'm much mistaken all BeOS and Haiku mail application use the standard
> mail attributes. So the query support isn't anything the mail daemon is
> needed for.
True, but other apps happens to use this format only because the mail
daemon sets the standard. Otherwise we would have a lot of incompatible
mail apps.
Anyway, I think we do need a mail client of some sort in our releases,
it is as important as the web browser. It could be Beam, or an older
version of MDR that works better, or something else. I think the idea
was to remove MDR and use an IMAP filesystem at some point, right ? This
would make it easier to understand: the mailbox is shown as a volume on
the desktop, what's inside is in sync with your remote mailbox, what's
out of it is on your hard drive. You can copy a mail locally, delete it
from the mailbox, and so on. We'd still need the mail daemon to send
mails, I guess ?
--
Adrien.
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