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New Mozilla-based Mail Client: Minotaur

Posted by michael on from the feeping-creaturitis dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Status? by Surak · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, only half bull. ;)

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    My journal has hot /. gossip.
  2. 2nd rule of software by tomk · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought the first rule of software was: "No software is truly complete until it can read email".

    I guess we need a second rule: "Once software reads email, it must be split into pieces."

    I'm waiting for a third rule: "Each piece must then evolve until it can read email again."

    It's the circle of life.

  3. Re:excellent!! by Richy_T · · Score: 2, Funny
    You mean you haven't tried


    gcc -O2 -Wall -Read_Email foo.cpp


    yet?


    Rich

  4. Re:excellent!! by ianezz · · Score: 2, Funny
    Vim / emacs (Please delete as appropriate) is a good text editor, but that's all.

    Emacs? You know, if people used to say "Emacs is a nice OS, but I prefer UNIX", there is a reason. :-)

    GNU Emacs / XEmacs is to text editors what Mozilla is to web browsers (well, to "mere HTML renderers with some buttons attached" would be more appropriate). I'd go further and say that Mozilla is definitively the 21st century Emacs (a proof? Komodo).

  5. Re:excellent!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > emacs ... is a good text editor, but that's all

    You mean it edits text too? Wow, they put in everything! :)