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 ();
	}
}