creating an e-mail program

hyperriven · 06-29-2004, 11:05 PM

I don't like any of the available e-mail programs for Linux, and since I know a little C and C++ I would like to try and make my own e-mail program. I don't have enough programming experience yet to create my own from scratch, so I was wondering if anyone knew of a simple, well documented, e-mail program that I could start out with. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

idaho · 06-30-2004, 12:20 AM

I have always liked elm
http://www.instinct.org/elm/

mutt and pine are other mail clients I often hear mentioned.

estiedi · 06-30-2004, 02:58 AM

go to freshmeat.net. Type "email" int the searchbox and hit "go".

You'll find a couple of hundreds of email client projects. Maybe you can join the development team for one you like?
Or take the sources from a project you like and adapt it to your needs (and distribute it under GPL;-).

HTH,

estiedi