Øystein Gisnås created Debian packages for tinymail. Again, it’s not a release nor is it a promise about the API, it’s just a preview. It’s also not an E-mail client. Tinymail is a framework, it’s not an E-mail client by itself. It has a demo written in C and one in Python.
I haven’t yet tested the packages myself and I strongly advise to build from source code or to rebuild the packages with what is current in the repository.
ps. For those who are now going to make blog templates of how I blog about tinymail: note that I have to keep repeating that tinymail is not an E-mail client because I simply keep getting E-mails from people who wanted me to create an E-mail client so much that they started believing that tinymail is that promised E-mail client. Tinymail is primarily focused at software developers who are going to create E-mail clients for mobile & embedded appliances. I repeat, I repeat, I repeat.
I’ve even read “it’s unusable because it doesn’t have a ui for configuring E-mail accounts”-like comments. Being a software developer who is going to use tinymail, that’s your task. Right? I fear that with the packages for GPE and Debian, that type of traffic is going to increase (more normal users will try it). That’s why I repeat, I repeat and I repeat.
Maybe you should put a dialog box up in the tinymail demos that say something to the effect of:
“This is not an email client, it’s a technology demo, demoing the tinymail framework. If you’re not a developer then this is not for you. Don’t request features for tinymail that it is missing as a real email client.”
Not a bad idea. I’ll think about it :-)
I guess having a reasonably widely deployed application for tinymail would also help – it’s a lot more obvious what’s going on when there are non-demo applications for a library around.
broonie: you are invited to create that one. Nokia is working on Modest, which will be such an E-mail client for both their Nokia 770 and for the desktop. I know a few other vendors are also working on E-mail clients for their own mobile devices.