Comments on: Mail as a Desktop API http://blogs.gnome.org/shres/2005/10/04/mail-as-a-desktop-api/ Making a dent in the universe! Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:07:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Devdas Bhagat http://blogs.gnome.org/shres/2005/10/04/mail-as-a-desktop-api/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Devdas Bhagat Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/shres/2005/10/04/mail-as-a-desktop-api/#comment-88 Some of us just use a real email client. And we don't turn it off after it gets started. Perhaps you just need to use better email clients.<p/><a href="http://www.mutt.org/">http://www.mutt.org/</a> Some of us just use a real email client. And we don’t turn it off after it gets started. Perhaps you just need to use better email clients.

http://www.mutt.org/

]]> By: Shreyas http://blogs.gnome.org/shres/2005/10/04/mail-as-a-desktop-api/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Shreyas Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/shres/2005/10/04/mail-as-a-desktop-api/#comment-89 Get real dude, this comment is invalid. You cant do anything great with mutt than just read mail. What about shared calendars, address books, web calendaring, shared folders ? This whole attitude of i am better of in the past is plain ignorance of any other features other than to read and write mails. Get real dude, this comment is invalid. You cant do anything great with mutt than just read mail. What about shared calendars, address books, web calendaring, shared folders ? This whole attitude of i am better of in the past is plain ignorance of any other features other than to read and write mails.

]]> By: Devdas Bhagat http://blogs.gnome.org/shres/2005/10/04/mail-as-a-desktop-api/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Devdas Bhagat Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/shres/2005/10/04/mail-as-a-desktop-api/#comment-90 As in, one application doing one thing and doing it right is wrong? And mail clients should just be there for reading and writing email, not calendaring. Groupware apps might have calendaring, but then you need to include almost every form of communication we use (Hint: IRC is for immediate communication, usenet and email for group/person to person communication).<p/>And just share your folders via IMAP, it makes life a lot easier. I haven't needed calendaring yet (Note that I either block an entire day, or none and decide on appointments on the fly).<p/>Oh, and you can choose to start your mail client once and then never close it. Reserve a virtual desktop for that. One for your office suite. One for your browser, if needed. As in, one application doing one thing and doing it right is wrong? And mail clients should just be there for reading and writing email, not calendaring. Groupware apps might have calendaring, but then you need to include almost every form of communication we use (Hint: IRC is for immediate communication, usenet and email for group/person to person communication).

And just share your folders via IMAP, it makes life a lot easier. I haven’t needed calendaring yet (Note that I either block an entire day, or none and decide on appointments on the fly).

Oh, and you can choose to start your mail client once and then never close it. Reserve a virtual desktop for that. One for your office suite. One for your browser, if needed.

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