[Chicago] Python based webmail client?

[Fawad Halim]

Hula's webmail client is awesome. However, last time I checked, it was only able to talk to its own backend and didn't have an option for using an arbitrary IMAP server.

-fawad

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:49:58 -0500, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> 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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