[Chicago] Python based webmail client?

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Mon Jul 17 17:49:58 CEST 2006


Brian Sobolak wrote:
> Has anyone encountered a usable Python-based webmail client?  A number of
> us were discussing this at a recent UFO-Chicago meeting and realized that
> we
>   a) didn't like to load the huge PHP binary if possible and
>   b) prefer chipmunks to camels (python vs perl) on the off chance we
> might ever wish to hack it.
>   c) run mailman anyway, so the python binaries are around
>   d) are so so sick of squirrelmail
> 
> Suggestions?  Tips?  Pointers?

bobomail is around from a long long time ago.

Hula (http://www.hula-project.org/) was supposed to be building a nice 
webmail client; I don't know if they ever did.  I can't get to their 
website either.

> ps I don't know if this is still the case, but it appeared that Yahoo at
> some point heavily used Python for webmail.  But it's been years since
> I've been a regular user.

I'm pretty sure that was transitional.


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