2017-09-11 8:23 GMT+02:00 Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>:

>
> > I was wondering if anyone would work on Astroid mail
> > https://astroidmail.github.io/
> >
> > It seems simpler to package than Thunderbird and it could be extremely
> > useful in the short/medium term
>
> Astroid requires external programs like mpop or offlineimap to fetch
> mail. So it cannot quite replace Thunderbird for the casual mail
> user.


What about the not so casual email user ? ;-)

Perhaps, claws-mail or blasa are better alternatives. Both
> claws-mail and balsa are already packaged for Guix.
>

I didn t know

In my view, those make the Thunderbird case even more desperate ;-)