[Sugar-devel] possible foundation for an email activity

[Albert Cahalan]

Lucian Branescu writes:
> 2009/5/22 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>:

>> Anjal uses Webkit and the evolution backend and has a cool UI,
>> may be interesting to see how to use that code in an activity.

Evolution has a long history of eating mailboxes. When a serious
bug commonly affects users and goes unfixed for years, one should
have quite a bit of doubt about the code.

Evolution also happens to mangle mail in ways that hinder full
participation in many Open Source mailing lists.

Really, this code is not a candidate for reuse.

> It looks lovely, even has conversations (the one absolutely
> necessary feature of GMail).

GMail conversations are a poor substitute for real threading.
See jwz's site for the proper algorithm. (Google: jwz threading)