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+modest - a modest e-mail client
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what is it
+modest is an e-mail client designed for systems with modest
+hardware (by 2006 standards). Main target for this is the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet and the GPE-environment. But the software will of
+course also work on systems with less-modest hardware, such as desktop PCs.
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+what does it consist of
+modest uses well-known and lesser-known open-source components:
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+ - libcamel: libcamel is the e-mail handling
+ library originally designed for the Evolution e-mail client. It
+ supports all the usual (POP3, IMAP, SMTP) protocols, and some unusual as
+ well, such as Microsoft Exchange and Novell Groupwise.
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- tinymail: while libcamel is very powerful, it also
+ requires quite a bit of memory. Enter tinymail, an
+ email-client development framework, written by Philip van Hoof.
+ With tinymail, libcamel can be used in a very memory-efficient way.
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- GTK+ and/or Hildon: for its
+ user-interface, modest supports multiple
+ user-interfaces. Both plain-GTK+ and Hildon-UIs
+ - the latter
+ for the running on the 770, and the former for use in other environments,
+ such as GPE and Linux-desktops.
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+frequently asked questions
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+ - Q: what does modest require?. modest
+ in its GTK+ incarnation requires libcamel, tinymail and
+ gtk+ 2.6 or higher and libglade. For Hildon, also the
+ hildon libraries are required.
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- Q: will it run on Windows?. Well, maybe. All
+ the components should run on Windows, so in theory the program should
+ work. We haven't tried that yet, though. Please tell us if you got it running!
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- Q: will it run on MacOS?. Well, maybe. All
+ the components should there - and it should be a lot easier than on
+ Windows. Again, we haven't tried it. Please tell us if you got it working!
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- Q: how can I contribute? Check out the code from subversion:
+ svn checkout https://garage.maemo.org/svn/modest.
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+linkorama
+Some interesting links:
+Tinymail SVN
+Camel e-mail handling library
+Spuug GObject code generator
+GTK+ Reference
+GLib Reference
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