Re^5: A Perl-app for twingling

... 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.

Perhaps you need a paradigm shift. This system, once built and proven reliable, might be regarded as the "authoritative" archive of your email, rather than the old mbox (or whatever) files.

Given a decent interface, most email clients could deal directly with the twingle store rather than the intermediate mailbox.

Matt

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A Perl-app for twingling by punkish (Priest) on May 19, 2004 at 21:04 UTC
Well, such a paradigm shift would come at a great cost, as that would amount to creating a new email client along with its twingled data store. Right now as is, the email client work has already been done by many worthy agents, in my case the Apple Mail.app. You are right, however, as this task would require careful thought, particularly in limiting the scope of the project so that it descends from the realm of "would be nice" to "do-able." Maybe at some time I will become familiar with Java or Cocoa and be able to make sense of the existing opensource apps such as Zoe (Java) and Emila (Cocoa), or better yet, I hope twingle.com would open up their secrets so I could read their Perl source and see what magic is going on.	[reply]

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by punkish (Priest) on May 19, 2004 at 21:04 UTC

Right now as is, the email client work has already been done by many worthy agents, in my case the Apple Mail.app.

You are right, however, as this task would require careful thought, particularly in limiting the scope of the project so that it descends from the realm of "would be nice" to "do-able."

Maybe at some time I will become familiar with Java or Cocoa and be able to make sense of the existing opensource apps such as Zoe (Java) and Emila (Cocoa), or better yet, I hope twingle.com would open up their secrets so I could read their Perl source and see what magic is going on.

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