Yup, the concept is straightforward. And once visualized, it is really elegant and addictive.

The problem is building something like this. Which is why I asked originally if someone knew of any existing opensource, Perl-based effort on this.

Re your suggestion, I don't believe a database is a good option. A database creates another, well, database. No, no. I would envision this app to be merely another view, albeit a value-added view, to the existing mail data store so that the view would always be up-to-date. Otherwise one would have to worry about synchronization. That is the problem with Zoe. Once it has imported everything, it has imported everything, even if it is spam or junk or just plain useless. After that even if one deletes those worthless messages from the mailboxes, they still remain in Zoe.

Otoh, a database might be a useful, additional add-on, but syncing would be very important.

Anyway, thanks for the ideas.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: A Perl-app for twingling by punkish
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