[MlMt] Future Feature Thoughts (was Crowd Funding 2014)

[Scott Blystone]

All,

I think that Ryan has some good thoughts on this subject, and his 
response got me thinking a bit more even though I do not agree with him 
on all the details.

There is a need for something at least somewhat unique here. I have some 
experience with Postbox and have some thoughts which might apply here. 
The BIG problem (IMHO) with Postbox is that it is based on the very old 
Mozilla 2.x code. Yet, they have managed to add on some interesting 
features. They have integration with Dropbox and social networking 
sites. Personally, I could not care less about Facebook, Twitter or 
other social networking links, but the Dropbox integration seems quite 
useful. Dropbox has recently opened up their API's some it's addition 
into MailMate might not me all that difficult. Perhaps the addition of 
Google Drive and/or other network storage systems would also be 
desirable. Sometimes I need to send large attachments. Although my mail 
service and bandwidth are adequate for most anything I would want to 
throw into an email, many people I know are quite limited by either 
either their ISP or email provider. The ability to quickly, easily and 
simply attach a link to a large file into a MailMate message might be 
very useful.

I'm also thinking about a companion Android and/or IOS client. Maybe 
someone else would need to help with this given Benny's current time 
constraints. I doubt that Apple would allow an application of this type, 
but I'm sure Android would be no problem. I'm not thinking about a 
full-fledged MailMate for Android here, but what about a companion 
application that might be able to access a copy of Mail Mate running on 
a Mac somewhere to perhaps quickly search the message base and return 
the results. Does anyone else have any ideas along this line?

On 29 Oct 2013, at 7:59, Ryan Erwin wrote:

> ## The Hacker's Mail Client
>
> I use MailMate more than any other program on my Macbook Air, which I 
> keep with me almost all the time in my life of nearly constant travel. 
> I love that I can hit "/" and my default search boxes come up, and I 
> can quickly find the message that I need to reference.
>

...

> -Ryan in Shanghai

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Scott Blystone
Rochester, NY, US

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