[Discuss] FOSS email that doesn't suck -- does such a thing exist?

[Rich Pieri]

On 3/18/2013 3:36 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
> I'm not following the logic. Unless Dan was proposing using a remotely
> located MUA via ssh or VNC. That didn't seem to be the case. Instead he
> described consolidating filtering/sorting functionality on the IMAP server.

I'm already doing that. The problem isn't the backend. It's the
quantity. I get a LOT of mail. Thousands of messages some days.


> Lazy C++? Are you saying the performance is bad because it is coded in
> verbose C++ instead of minimalist C? What about all the JavaScript it

Not verbose. Badly, lazily written.


> JWZ? Jamie Zawinski? I don't see any relevant project listed on his
> hacks page: http://www.jwz.org/hacks/
> Links?

Netscape Navigator 2. All that code was thrown out in Navigator 3/4 and
replaced with lazy C++ and databases.

-- 
Rich P.