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Re: [Request] Claws mail upgrade and layout review

My current plans are to use something like tinymail and Qt, with GPG support. I think modifying and maintaining claws will be far too painful atm.

If anyone has some suggestions, please let me know

Re: [Request] Claws mail upgrade and layout review

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Originally Posted by noctule (Post 743863)

I need to contact the current maintainer of claws and see if they have any objections, but I would really like to modify the UI on this.

Responded by email as well, but no objections from me (though I'm not even the current maintainer despite what packages.maemo.org says). If anyone decides to take a shot at it, it would be nice if the plugin packages could be manually optified to work around bug 7707.

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Originally Posted by Saturn (Post 744625)

claws-mail is super nicelly written and has served my needs a couple of years at least.

Yeah, funny that the full-featured, desktop-oriented MUA outperforms the mobile-optimised one ;-)

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If you'd like to help bringing a new facelift you can contact the developers at:
http://www.claws-mail.org/

AFAIK there's no interest for Fremantle upstream, but they probably will accept patches.

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Originally Posted by noctule (Post 744702)

My current plans are to use something like tinymail and Qt, with GPG support. I think modifying and maintaining claws will be far too painful atm.

I would avoid anything camel-based (ie tinymail or evolution) for IMAP support personally, it's just too broken IMHO. Possible alternatives include libetpan (seems to work fine in claws at least) and QMF (particularly if you're going down the Qt route). On the Qt front, another option would be to look into backporting the MeeGo handset client, when that materialises.

Another project that had a lot of promise was telomer/polymer (the author really groks IMAP), but it seems dead for a long time now.

Re: [Request] Claws mail upgrade and layout review

So there are many possibilities .... just understand what is the quickest and easiest...

Unfortunately I don't know well the linux environment, but on windows if I can be useful in some way...I'm "available" :-)

Re: [Request] Claws mail upgrade and layout review

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Originally Posted by lma (Post 744733)

Much appreciated. I'll update this thread when I think I have a decision made