Phoenix and Email....

gspears · Post by **gspears** » November 21st, 2002, 7:59 am

Hello,
I remember reading in the roadmap about 2 months ago that there was an email client PLANNED for/with Phoenix, and I believe that the timeframe was either 0.5 or 0.7 of Phoenix. The timeline/roadmap now has no reference to this. Can someone let me know :
a). Is the email client still planned?
b). Rough timeline?

Thanks
GS

rbrimhall · Post by **rbrimhall** » November 21st, 2002, 9:07 am

this thread talks about it some... the project is called thunderbird... but I, personally, don't know much about it... you could try a search though... here's the other thread: http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1025

ugggf · Post by **ugggf** » November 21st, 2002, 1:22 pm

It's (as far as I know) going to be a mail client ("Thunderbird") but it won't be part of the project and heard that it;s goinna be out there after v1.0 is released (or am I wrong?).

asa · Post by **asa** » November 21st, 2002, 2:21 pm

I think the plan is something like this:

Seth Spitzer (of Mozilla MailNews fame) has a "standalone" mail client, virtually identical to Mozilla MailNews, which has been prototyped and works based on code from the old 1.0 branch. He's going to be working to bring this code to the trunk so that anyone can build a standalone (no browser or composer) mail client that's otherwise the same as the Mozilla MailNews client. Once that happens (it's called minotaur), Phoenix users will have a decent XUL based mail client to use alongside Phoenix.
Then at some later point there will be an effort to "phoenix-ize" minotaur, bringing it over to the new toolkit that that Phoenix is based on, probably simplifying the interface some, improving performance and all that other good Phoenixy stuff. That project has been codenamed "thunderbird".
There has been some back and forth about in what order and in what timeframe all this will happen. Right now I think the order I've layed out is the working plan. Things may change. Hope this clears it up some.

--Asa

gspears · Post by **gspears** » November 21st, 2002, 4:27 pm

Thank You!

Post by **old Neil Parks** » November 21st, 2002, 11:58 pm

"Minotaur" as described above by Asa sounds good.

Any chance a standalone equivalent of Composer could be constructed along the same lines?

asa · Post by **asa** » November 22nd, 2002, 12:27 am

Neil Parks wrote:Any chance a standalone equivalent of Composer could be constructed along the same lines?

Go for it!

--Asa

Phoenix and Email....

Phoenix and Email....

As I understand it