A few days ago I got this reply on one of my blog posts:
Phil:
Your post — and your work — miss the point entirely. Nobody cares how email works, they just want it to work.
Gmail (and most other webmail applications) makes everything else obsolete. I can’t imagine why Evolution is even shipped with Gnome anymore.
Web-based email clients are the standard.
-Anon
I just finished the E-mail client the guy wants. Here it is!
using GLib; using Gtk; using WebKit; class Web20EmailClient : Window { WebView view; construct { view = new WebView (); view.open ("http://gmail.com"); view.set_size_request (640, 480); add (view); } static void main (string[] args) { Gtk.init (ref args); var win = new Web20EmailClient (); win.show_all (); Gtk.main (); } }