On 1/23/07, Dave Cridland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue Jan 23 05:45:30 2007, Quim Gil wrote:
> Important tip to those contacting us aiming to get a discount code
> in the final wave: the less we know you the more you should explain.

[snip]
I've been heavily involved in the IETF effort known as Lemonade, which is
aimed at providing a solid platform for mobile email by extending
existing email standards.
[...]
b) Telomer, which is a work-in-progress, and is a reworked UI to
bring Lemonade to Maemo, and is the first client to take Lemonade
onto a mobile device. This is again written in Python, this time with
pyGTK, and I'm trying to design the UI specifically to make best use
of the screen area, so it looks very different to Polymer.

With osso-email being crap, and no sign yet of Modest, the GUI mail
client space is very empty on Maemo, with my own Sylpheed[1] port the
most featureful.

Since the iPhone demo, I'm not sure desktop metaphors really work on a
mobile device, especially one with a screen as dense as the 770/N800 -
so I 'm hoping Sylpheed is a stop-gap until something better comes
along.

As Dave points out, mobile email is a big selling point - especially
to business, so I'd support any efforts to bring push, always-on, low
bandwidth email with a custom designed interface to Maemo. Telomer is
currently the best hope for this: so, IMHO, I think he should get a
discount code to encourage further development. This is a purely
selfish wish, as he's doing things which scratch my own itches.

Cheers,

Andrew

PS. Thanks for my discount code, my N800's on order :-)

[1] http://www.bleb.org/software/770/#sylpheed

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