From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arun Isaac Subject: Re: Thunderbird Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:53:53 +0530 Message-ID: References: <20170718171336.nwr4vk6uxlxmj4iv@abyayala> <87inich4k3.fsf@openmailbox.org> <20170728173117.dresjucctkml6e7j@abyayala> <874lsfefn3.fsf@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51214) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drI8f-0001Nu-GV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 02:24:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drI8c-0001NX-8u for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 02:24:09 -0400 Received: from o28.p25.mailjet.com ([185.189.236.28]:50187) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drI8c-0001Mr-1o for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 02:24:06 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Catonano Cc: guix-devel > 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. Perhaps, claws-mail or blasa are better alternatives. Both claws-mail and balsa are already packaged for Guix. =