KISS

[Gus Mueller]

On Jan 16, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Guy English wrote:

>> 2. Establish a common database format for local caching of mail content, and implement a standard library for interacting with that.
> 
> The library should either talk to the backend via IPC or pull just from the on disk stores directly. 

I've often thought about doing something like this in the past, so obviously I think it would be a great idea as well.  If you have an out of process backend, this way multiple apps could write crazy UIs on top of it.  Plus, when the IMAP implementation crashes on something crazy, it doesn't bring down the UI.

-gus

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