We need to talk about email clients. I’ve been joking for years that I’m going to write an email client and charge $500 for it — an email client that actually meets the needs of developers and professionals who rely on email, folks who type for a living. But I’m not going to, and I don’t know anybody who is. The economics of it make it kind of tough, given that Apple ships a good email client with OS X. Nevertheless, we need that email client.
via: inessential.com: Email init
Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire, launched the idea yesterday that the time is ripe for an open source group to develop a new, lean Cocoa-based email application for the Mac.
The working name for the project is Letters or Letters.app.
There’s already some interesting discussion on the project mailing list, and he’s set up a Twitter account to follow the project as well.