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Mozilla Messaging Starts up OperationsMozilla Messaging Starts up OperationsPosted 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 (guest, #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 (guest, #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 (subscriber, #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 (guest, #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.
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