Re: Where is Hydrant ?

[Jeff Bailey]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:06:10AM -0500, Alain Magloire wrote:
> Bonjour
>   Is Hydrant still in progress ?

Not right now, sorry.  Between my mothers death, and my cat having 
congestive heart failure + kidney failure (he's going to live), I'm now 
600 odd emails behind. =(  I was hoping to get started soon, but I don't 
know if that will reasonably happen.

My plan had been to take mailx and throw a curses interface on it first.  
Then maybe rewrite in C++ for a good test. =)

> I was tempted, in the last few days to lay down quickly some basic
> email browser to test the mailutils library, mailx is incomplete and
> frankly a pain to use i.e. mail(x) as general mail reader is awfull.
> So I was going to write some basic utilities using ncurses or tvision or
> Xterminal since I'm not a Window programmer.

Gtk has a nice visual layout package which helps alot.  You still need to 
code a bit of X crap, but not nearly as much.

> I do not know of any mailer with a clean design that carefully separate
> the UI front end with mail handling backend.  Any  suggestions

Bahahahahahahahahahah..  That was a good joke, Alain. 8)

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