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Building an email client is one of those fun projects you can play with and learn a lot about how the internet works at the same time. Like most cool projects,

Building an email client is one of those fun projects you can play with and learn a lot about how the internet works at the same time. Like most cool projects, you can either stop with a little functionality or keep going into all kinds of other stuff. Telnet clients are also fun. I haven't written an http client, but looking at the state of web programming, I imagine that is a whole nother can of worms. I think I'd rather go for a root canal.

Twisol 14y ago
Telnet clients are fun! It's easy to discard Telnet as an ancient, obsolete protocol, but the core of its design is actually very enlightening.
codewright 14y ago
HTTP clients aren't really that bad, if you're not trying to implement the full state of the current batch of relevant RFCs.