[sugar] E-mail, XMPP, and non-Sugar identities

[Shikhar]

Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
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> There are perhaps a billion or more people in the world who have e-mail
> access (SMTP).  We would like students with XOs to be able to communicate
> with these people in an easy, sensible way.  For this reason, there has
> been a great deal of interest in e-mail clients for the XO.
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I am one of those interested in the development of an email client for 
Sugar (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Email_Activity), although in the short 
term the below goal would not be accomplished:

a Sugary email client should support meta-contacts in the sense of 
associating email addresses with Sugar buddies. Emails sent to the 
contact are either sent directly across the mesh when the buddy appears, 
or via standard SMTP when internet access becomes available, whichever 
happens first.