Re: [Althea-devel] Althea status and future

[Roopinder S. <rs...@mi...>]

Martin Samuelsson wrote:
> To bad... It looked like a promising client, just not useful yet for
> anyone needing more characters than ascii. ):

Agreed.

I was looking for a light-weight client that does not have the bloat 
that Thunderbird has. Sylpheed was a good alternative, but it had too 
many dependencies. Moreover, I am on a FreeBSD box and running 
Thunderbird in Linux emulation, which is really not ideal. Compiling 
Thunderbird would take many hours at least.

The feature I like in Thunderbird is the client-side IMAP spam 
filtering. I was using Mutt previously, but it became annoying without a 
client-side filter. There is "IMAP spam be gone" by Roger Binns which 
can work with Mutt, but the problem with his script is that it uses a 
mix of Python and SpamAssassin, and I really don't have Python and 
SpamAssassin installed everywhere (same reason why I don't use a 
Java-based client :) ).

Althea compiled on FreeBSD with minor changes and ran as well, but it 
does need further work. It has a good code base that can be built upon. 
I'll be submitting a patch against 0.5.7 later today.

What do you think? Is it possible to develop it further?

Some features that might be nice:
* AddressBook: There is some code, but can't seem to find any instance 
of that class being made. Maybe I did not dig enough :D
* Port over to GTK2.
* Spam filtering: using Bayesian methods w/o any dependencies, meaning a 
self-contained one.
* RSS syndication (not essential, but nice)
* Searching
* Somehow the pixmaps don't get included. Could just be my problem.

Thought, flames, "shut-ups" are welcome :D

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