After i learned Java and Perl some, i had planned to create an email app that was resonably cross platform.
The main detail is that i'd cause the email to be stored by return address, much like OE (and the like, i'm sure) stores EVERYTHING in one file, with the exception of storing the MIME-attachments in a separete directory.
every email i'd get from friend A would be stored in file A and indexed by some sort of Perl db. Friend B would have their own file, and the db would keep up to date so it all displays in the app, but on the computer they're sepereate files. (spam might be easily removed by just removing them from your files system; repeat spammers needn't be deleted more than once).
attachments could easily be moved to a seperate directory and the db keeps notes to what mail entry it belongs to and could display it in the app.
since i'm very new to Perl (and havent even started learning Java), its going to take me a while. So, i'm interested in some collaboration.
once this is working, perhaps it wouldnt take too much work to be implemented into a fully fleged Unix mail thingy (with a cli instead of a Java-gui?) and be usefull for this topic.
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After i learned Java and Perl some, i had planned to create an email app that was resonably cross platform.
The main detail is that i'd cause the email to be stored by return address, much like OE (and the like, i'm sure) stores EVERYTHING in one file, with the exception of storing the MIME-attachments in a separete directory.
every email i'd get from friend A would be stored in file A and indexed by some sort of Perl db. Friend B would have their own file, and the db would keep up to date so it all displays in the app, but on the computer they're sepereate files. (spam might be easily removed by just removing them from your files system; repeat spammers needn't be deleted more than once).
attachments could easily be moved to a seperate directory and the db keeps notes to what mail entry it belongs to and could display it in the app.
since i'm very new to Perl (and havent even started learning Java), its going to take me a while. So, i'm interested in some collaboration.
once this is working, perhaps it wouldnt take too much work to be implemented into a fully fleged Unix mail thingy (with a cli instead of a Java-gui?) and be usefull for this topic.