Hey all,
I’m going to be moving on to my next project and have been thinking about doing an email client. I like Thunderbird, but the search is terrible, and I also want to tackle something that needs pretty high performance for processing emails etc.
Any suggestions or considerations I should think about?
I’ll focus on just getting SMTP going in a CLI then I’ll introduce some sort of frontend using Qt.
There’s an old joke that every sufficiently big program eventually grows it’s own built-in email client. IOW more email clients are the last thing we need.
How substantial and bleeding edge a project do you want to take on? We could use a fast search engine with more modern NLP stuff than Lucene had last time I looked, though idk about now. You could then possibly integrate it with Thunderbird.
Maybe a plugin would make more sense and reduce the scope a bit?
Can you give some examples of large programs with their own email client?
I’ve heard this joke about emacs, not sure if it is true though.