[OLPC-GSoC] Email activity - design decisions

[Shikhar]

Samuel Klein wrote:
> As for mail clients, I'd like to see a project idea that reflects on 
> the design decisions made by existing clients (including the tinymail 
> client being slowly ported to the XO) and describes a sufficiently 
> simple place to start.
Earlier I had planned to use the Python libraries for 
sending/receiving/MIME-handling and write the mail storage layer using 
sqlite. But I see that relying on Tinymail for these features - and 
others that I learned it provides for email client developers - would 
make a lot more sense with regard to performance and implementability. 
Most of all it has been tried-and-tested, is actively developed and the 
API is very flexible.

My proposal is up at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Email_Activity (Homunq, 
SJ: thanks for the feedback!)

I had an IRC conversation with Phillip Van Hoof who is the Tinymail 
maintainer and he is interested in mentoring development. I am cc:ing 
this email to him. His mentorship would be very valuable in the 
development of an email activity that makes use of Tinymail.

Cheers,

Shikhar