Mozilla Messaging Starts up Operations [LWN.net]

Mozilla Messaging Starts up Operations

Posted Feb 19, 2008 23:21 UTC (Tue) by darwish07 (subscriber, #49520)
Parent article: Mozilla Messaging Starts up Operations

I dream of something like an open-source web-based mail reader like Gmail, sponsored by
Mozilla. The development becomes open, and the server side software is updated for each
extra-stable release. Maybe mozilla can also make some money from the project by ads, google
search and new novel things. 

This would be much more better than creating a local mail reader/local calender which becomes
less appropriate daily. (espicailly the calender side, which you basically need to update it
from a variety of places if you are a busy person).

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Mozilla Messaging Starts up Operations

Posted Feb 20, 2008 0:35 UTC (Wed) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953) [Link]

If they want to make money what they should develop is an Outlook/Exchange open source
competitor.

Mozilla Messaging Starts up Operations

Posted Feb 20, 2008 19:57 UTC (Wed) by cpm (subscriber, #3554) [Link]

Careful;

That is how this whole thing started, I could go into it, but here
is as good a write up as I have read:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html

Mozilla Messaging Starts up Operations

Posted Feb 20, 2008 21:04 UTC (Wed) by AlexHudson (subscriber, #41828) [Link]

This is more or less the inspiration for what we're doing at www.bongo-project.org.

It's not an exchange/outlook killer, but it will hopefully be simple but useful web mail/calendar.

Thunderbird is also a pretty key client for us & the various other free software mail projects; I wish the Mozilla Messaging co. all the luck in the world.

Mozilla Messaging Starts up Operations

Posted Feb 20, 2008 0:37 UTC (Wed) by kev009 (guest, #43906) [Link]

That's what IMAP and CalDAV are for.  It would be nice to see something like IMAP for a user's
RSS subscriptions so it would remember what has been read as well.  Not everyone wants web
only interfaces.  I quite like my fat email clients, and only used web interfaces when on
public computers.

Mozilla Messaging Starts up Operations

Posted Feb 20, 2008 1:49 UTC (Wed) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link]

The OP might be on to something.  I use Mutt at home and Icedove at work.  While I still
prefer local clients to web equivalents, offering a web-based client in addition to standalone
clients could be a decent way to generate revenue.  Even better if the web client could
support the "productivity" features many businesses use.  

Microsoft's Exchange web client is horrible to use.  I imagine people would love an
alternative.

Mozilla Messaging Starts up Operations

Posted Feb 20, 2008 11:24 UTC (Wed) by raboofje (subscriber, #26972) [Link]

This would be much more better than creating a local mail reader/local calender which becomes less appropriate daily. (espicailly the calender side, which you basically need to update it from a variety of places if you are a busy person).

I tend to disagree: I want my calendar to be an aggregation of calendar 'feeds', and these feeds may not be publicly available: some may require my personal credentials to access, others might not even be accessible from outside my corporate network at all.

I don't want to trust online webapps with my credentials to external sites - we really need standardized infrastructure to give different webapps *partial* access to your data at other webapps. As for information that's only locally available, web-based offerings are out of luck there entirely.

The technology to do this is largely in place. I hope it will turn into a real usable product soon.