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Can someone here comment on why creating & maintaining a solid local desktop email client is such a costly, moving target, such that it has required an organiza
by j1vms 10y ago
Can someone here comment on why creating & maintaining a solid local desktop email client is such a costly, moving target, such that it has required an organization the size of Mozilla to pursue it and get it "nearly" right? Is the bulk of Thunderbird maintenance work happening in its "HTML render/js component(s)"? If so, could we stabilize on a Thunderbird without HTML render/js support, providing it only as optional add-on?
- r3bl 10y agoBecause email is a decades old technology that, thanks to its decentralization and such a wide spread usage, is impossible to improve. I highly recommend this blog post about a guy trying to make its own email client and failing to do so miserably because emails are such a mess : http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/02/email_overload_building_my_own_email_app_to_reach_inbox_zero.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/02/... Edit: removed the Pocket redirect from the URL.