New Mozilla-based Mail Client: Minotaur

Ant writes "Minotaur is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. We are modeling ourselves after the Phoenix rewrite of the Mozilla browser. Our intended customer is someone who uses Phoenix (or another non mozilla.exe browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with their browser. Currently, mozilla -mail is not a good option for these users because link clicks and attachments end up going to mozilla browser windows instead of the preferred browser. In addition, by focusing solely on stand alone mail, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the mail client by removing components and chrome we don't need."

Comments

Current state of Minotaur

[Mika_Lindman]

Currently, mozilla -mail is not a good option for these users because link clicks and attachments end up going to mozilla browser windows instead of the preferred browser.

Once we release our first alpha release to the public, we'll add a link here for you to get it. Or you can build it yourself if you are already familiar and comfortable with building mozilla.

Looks like choosing the browser isn't the largest problem here.. The fact, that the software isn't even on alpha stage yet, isn't apparently worth mentioning in your post.

I know how much you slashdotters enjoy all gpl/linux/etc stuff, but please, posts like this are really worth nothing.