"Reaching from a Florida computer into the most private documents of Hollywood celebrities took no organized blackmail ring, no special tools, and no special software. It required merely a search engine, an Internet connection, and the willingness to be deeply creepy."

A good piece by Tom, explaining why the putative new email project by Brent Simmons and Daniel Jakult might be doomed. The short summary: "Brent’s effort is never going to produce a truly great mail client because ‘Uses IMAP‘ is one of his core requirements."

Background tasks and task queues, XMPP and receiving email, oh my! Handy stuff, when it shows up (possibly for Google IO in May?)

"I set up a google code project, checked in the 'Email' app's original source code and started in with a regex-shaped chainsaw. When I was done K-9 was born." Yes, a fork of the original Android email app, on their app store. I shouldn't need to mention MailWrangler now, right?

Once I figure out how to get email working (pesky 'has to be an admin' nonsense) I might add this. Mind you, I already get quite good visibility on errors. There's more useful stuff on the site, too.

I've still got all my archived mail - everything from something like '02 to August of last year - in Eudora, but I'm now using Mail as my primary client. At some point I'll look at this and put everything in one place. Sigh.

Ah, one of those kick-myself moments. This is a very easy thing to implement ("Time Capsule looks at your Flickr account for photos you took a year ago and sends them to you in email"), but this looks lovely and polished.

"Correo blends technology from two popular Mozilla projects, Camino and Thunderbird, to create a polished native Macintosh application" 0.1 out now. Not for me; I'm still fond of Eudora's UI

If I used Apple Mail and IMAP I'd want this. I wonder if 10.5 will make this obsolete? It'd be good if it did.

A new mail client (and perhaps more importantly IMAP library) for Mac OS X. I've mentioned it before but I forgot where it was.

%20 in the URLs? Insane idea for captchas? Yes! This guy is a fuckwit!

"you will not use any robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Service"

Nice idea. Shame it explicitly breaks the Gmail T&Cs (which is one of the reasons I'm not scrabbling for an invite)

People don't like it, especially when they're replying

More on moronic anti-spam stuff. Nice to know it's not just me.

A little Perl script to do the job. Watch for the anti-spam substitutions