Looking for my next project (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey all,

I'm going to be moving on to my next project and have been thinking about doing an email client. I like Thunderbird, but the search is terrible, and I also want to tackle something that needs pretty high performance for processing emails etc.

Any suggestions or considerations I should think about?

I'll focus on just getting SMTP going in a CLI then I'll introduce some sort of frontend using Qt.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

There's an old joke that every sufficiently big program eventually grows it's own built-in email client. IOW more email clients are the last thing we need.

How substantial and bleeding edge a project do you want to take on? We could use a fast search engine with more modern NLP stuff than Lucene had last time I looked, though idk about now. You could then possibly integrate it with Thunderbird.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Can you give some examples of large programs with their own email client?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I've heard this joke about emacs, not sure if it is true though.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Maybe a plugin would make more sense and reduce the scope a bit?

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