Nokia N880, FWD: misinformation

Nokia N800

Thanks to Nokia and more specifically Dirk-Jan C. Binnema for getting me a discount for the N800. I will of course make sure tinymail runs on it. Not that I expect a lot changes for that.

FWD: Misinformation

Jono makes this interesting argument about misinformation. I recently started reading this book about emotional intelligence written by Daniel Goleman. This is is, In my opinion, a good followup subject on Jono’s point.

I read an older book of Daniel Goleman on emotional intelligence before, but this one is more practical (I think I have the Dutch version of Working with Emotional Intelligence).

Psychology is interesting, indeed.

Telomer & Polymer

I’ll immediately respond on Telomer before I get flooded with questions on why doing tinymail if it’s all that simple:

Telomer is interesting of course, but it does not cache E-mail locally. This means that you must always be online to read E-mail. Getting the summary information and getting messages (actually, getting MIME parts) is not the hardest part of an E-mail client. The hardest part is parsing the MIME parts and dealing with the offline cache in an efficient way. Which is what tinymail is really about. Actually, from a technical pov it’s what camel(-lite) is about.

Tinymail of course also provides code for connectivity with IMAP servers (also for POP3 and NNTP) otherwise it can not get this information in that cache.

Another already working solution when your mobile device is always online, is also called webmail like Yahoo mail, GMail, Hotmail, Squirrel, Roundcube, IMP, etc. The problem is, however, that mobile devices are not always online.

You could argue that making a simple quick ‘n dirty cache is quickly implementable. The implementation of this E-mail client or library will, however, get more complex once synchronizing changes to that offline cache must somehow be reflected to the IMAP server once there is connectivity. And once you want to do this efficiently. Etc. But I’m interested, as it’s on the TODO list for Telomer & Polymer (I just promise that it wont be easy, hehe).

The Lemonade stuff, however, is very interesting. For example the P-IMAP (Push-IMAP concept) for when new messages arrive. You can be certain that I’m already looking into ways to use these IMAP protocol features on IMAP servers that support it (emphasis on that).

It’s very nice and extremely interesting to see Polymer and Telomer use and push the Lemonade IMAP protocol features. In time tinymail will obviously support all of it.

Anybody who wants to work on reimplementing the IMAP provider of camel(-lite) or on improving the existing one by for example adding support for the Lemonade protocol features is absolutely invited.