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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. Status? by buzzsport · · Score: -1, Troll

    What a bunch of bull.

  2. Re-inventing the wheel, and doing it with XUL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sorry but I just can't use a program written with the *ahem* XUL.

    It's too slow, feels awful, like Java Swing!

    Plus, how many email clients are there already... jeez! I don't see a valid validation of the real need for this project.

    Still, uhhhh... gee boss... open source is good... duhhhh... more choice means better software... duhhhh...

  3. Red Star over Mozilla? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linux and Red Communism .. in co-hoots? Richard Stallman has an axe to grind with his fellow academic types so he takes up communism? Where did you say Finland is? North EASTern Europe right by the old USSR?

    Is it any wonder (Red) China is adopting Linux?

    Maybe you have the godless freedom hating no-free-speech mandatory abortion Tibetan monk butchering red communism mozilla Red Star built into your distro too? So many distros do. Go ahead, approve of atrocities and terrorism by sporting the GNU/Red Star.

    The GNU/Linux platform and other OSS projects basically straight jacket the coders into a non-profit communal coding formula that while' free' is also almost incapable of making a profit for the programmer .. except for charging for Help Desk service. Should profit arise for a group from selling a distro it wouldn't be *too* long before they'd be undercut by another group making a near carbon copy and selling for less. Might as well just give the software away for all the money you can make from it. But such is the Linux world ..

    Instead, try Windows Xp or buy a Mac .. faster .. stable .. documented APIs .. and works.