From: michael libby <x@...>
Date: 2002-08-16T11:56:44+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby email client; why?

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On Thursday 15 August 2002 15:18, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> 1. So I can see the source and pick up tricks from it.
> 2. So I can modify it.
> 3. So I can contribute to its development.
> 4. So I can know the API for the database and data
> formats and handle them independently of the client.
> 5. Perhaps most importantly: So I can easily write
> internal scripts for it in Ruby.
>
> As regards (5): One of the things that keeps me using
> Outlook Express in spite of its problems is the "rules"
> capability. (That, and sheer inertia -- I'd hate to
> think about importing 30,000 messages or so into a new
> mailreader. Though if it were easy and errorproof, I'd
> still do it.)

I would have said all of the above except #4 hold true for me as well, then 
I started thinking it might be interesting to build a mailer that actually 
stored the messages in a relational database (I guess once you get one of 
these installed on a server on your local LAN or even the same machine a 
lot more problems start to look like they'd be good candidates for 
databases... just think of the possibilities using SQL to query your 
mailbox!)

Plus, a Ruby email client could be one of those applications where "if one 
hears it talk, one only wants to program immediately in Ruby". ;)

  -michael

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