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Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Jun 26, 2008 at 06:34 PM
Daly wrote:
It may not do more than SQLNotes ends up doing, and I am still trying to climb that learning curve—Pierre if you could get your own email client, it’d sure be nice. SQLNotes, I have no doubt, has a great future, and may make Pierre a very, if not rich, shall we say affluent, gentleman. He seems of the same ilk as Tom Davis (a compliment of highest order).
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re Email client: Writing a so-so email client is real easy. SQLNotes has all the basics (HTML editor, POP read, SMTP write, storage). However, writing an excellent email client is a daunting task (IMAP, GMail, Spam filters, etc), as IMHO GemX has learned, the hard way. Current plan is not to include an email client but to link to Outlook. If the demand is there, perhaps in version 2.0.
re Compliment: I’m speech-less. Thanks for the confidence you put in me!
Posted by Thomas
Jun 27, 2008 at 11:48 PM
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>re Email client: Writing a
>so-so email client is real easy. SQLNotes has all the basics (HTML editor, POP read,
>SMTP write, storage). However, writing an excellent email client is a daunting task
>(IMAP, GMail, Spam filters, etc), as IMHO GemX has learned, the hard way.
Very well said. For many users it might still suffice. But soon you find yourself competing with Outlook and Thunderbird as your users ask for this and that. And you find that the drag&drop emailing controls that made the development of the so-so client so easy, are a bit of a limiting factor. Then come the bug reports from users and you find yourself a full-time email client developer, competing with your paid product against the free (Thunderbird) or almost built-in or kind of enforced (Outlook) or free service (Gmail) softwares that most use anyway and they will still keep asking you to include that Outlook sync or cooperation anyway even if you have your own built-in email client.
Posted by Cassius
Jun 28, 2008 at 05:01 AM
Thomas wrote:
>Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>>re Email client: Writing a
>>so-so email client is real
>easy. SQLNotes has all the basics (HTML editor, POP read,
>>SMTP write, storage).
>However, writing an excellent email client is a daunting task
>>(IMAP, GMail, Spam
>filters, etc), as IMHO GemX has learned, the hard way.
>
>Very well said. For many users
>it might still suffice. But soon you find yourself competing with Outlook and
>Thunderbird as your users ask for this and that. And you find that the drag&drop
>emailing controls that made the development of the so-so client so easy, are a bit of a
>limiting factor. Then come the bug reports from users and you find yourself a
>full-time email client developer, competing with your paid product against the free
>(Thunderbird) or almost built-in or kind of enforced (Outlook) or free service
>(Gmail) softwares that most use anyway and they will still keep asking you to include
>that Outlook sync or cooperation anyway even if you have your own built-in email
>client.
>
Thomas is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! In response to an inquiry I made 8+ years ago about the slow development of Zoot 4.0, Tom Davis admitted that much of the delay had to do with problems integrating Zoot with Outlook (or at least establishing a usable interface/linking). He mused about whether he had erred in pursuing Outlook integration.
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