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+<h1>modest - a modest e-mail client</h1>
+
+<h2><img src="emailx_main.png" align="right"> what is it</h2>
+<strong>modest</strong> is an e-mail client designed for systems with modest
+hardware (by 2006 standards). Main target for this is the <a
+href="http://www.nokia.com/770" >Nokia 770 Internet Tablet</a> and the <a
+href="http://gpe.handhelds.org" >GPE</a>-environment. But the software will of
+course also work on systems with less-modest hardware, such as desktop PCs.
+
+<h2>what does it consist of</h2>
+<strong>modest</strong> uses well-known and lesser-known open-source components:
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>libcamel</strong>: <a
+ href="http://go-evolution.org/Camel">libcamel</a> is the e-mail handling
+ library originally designed for the <a
+ href="http://go-evolution.org/Main_Page" >Evolution</a> e-mail client. It
+ supports all the usual (POP3, IMAP, SMTP) protocols, and some unusual as
+ well, such as Microsoft Exchange and Novell Groupwise.
+
+ <li><strong>tinymail</strong>: while libcamel is very powerful, it also
+ requires quite a bit of memory. Enter <strong>tinymail</strong>, an
+ email-client development framework, written by <em>Philip van Hoof</em>.
+ With tinymail, libcamel can be used in a very memory-efficient way.
+
+ <li><strong>GTK+</strong> and/or <strong>Hildon</strong>: for its
+ user-interface, <strong>modest</strong> supports multiple
+ user-interfaces. Both plain-GTK+ and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGPL" >Hildon</a>-UIs
+ - the latter
+ for the running on the 770, and the former for use in other environments,
+ such as GPE and Linux-desktops.
+</ul>
+
+<h2>frequently asked questions</h2>
+<ul>
+ <li><strong>Q: what does <tt>modest</tt> require?</strong>. <tt>modest</tt>
+ in its GTK+ incarnation requires <tt>libcamel</tt>, <tt>tinymail</tt> and
+ <tt>gtk+ 2.6 or higher</tt> and <tt>libglade</tt>. For Hildon, also the
+ <tt>hildon</tt> libraries are required.
+
+ <li><strong>Q: will it run on Windows?</strong>. Well, <em>maybe</em>. 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!
+
+ <li><strong>Q: will it run on MacOS?</strong>. Well, <em>maybe</em>. 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!
+
+ <li><strong>Q: how can I contribute?</strong> Check out the code from subversion:
+ <tt>svn checkout https://garage.maemo.org/svn/modest</tt>.
+</ul>
+
+<h2>linkorama</h2>
+Some interesting links:
+<LI><A HREF="https://svn.cronos.be/svn/tinymail/trunk/">Tinymail SVN</A>
+<LI><A HREF="http://go-evolution.org/Camel">Camel</A> e-mail handling library
+<LI><A HREF="http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/spuug">Spuug GObject code generator</A>
+<LI><A HREF="http://go-evolution.org/Camel">Camel</A> e-mail handling library
+<LI><A HREF="http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/spuug">Spuug GObject code generator</A>
+<LI><A HREF="http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/index.html">GTK+ Reference</A>
+<LI><A HREF="http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/index.html">GLib Reference</A>
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