I thought you guys where going to remove the built in email client daemon that came with the os at some point in time and replace it with another client i think i might have heard wrong though I hope you really dont remove it but Improve on it I still think its pretty cool
No plans to remove it at the moment. If it gets replaced it will be replaced by something very similar, not by an all-in-one client as found in other OS.
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The client itself here is the mail_daemon, the Idea was to change the design of it, so instead of it downloading emails in the way POP3 does, just putting them somewhere on the disk, it would instead provide a local network filesystem with a view of your remote inbox, this avoids the need to download everything at once, and makes it much clearer what the actual server state is. (e.g if you use the current mail_daemon to download an email, and then delete it on your disk, should it be deleted from the server?)
The Application to view E-Mails themselves will likely not change. It is already very good IMO, Personally I would like a better view of the actual mail folders/inbox/threads though. i.e something to replace the tracker querry or Mail view. (In this case too though, nothing would be removed… you could just keep using the querry if you wanted, just that it now needs to querry only a smaller filesystem)
I mean, I don’t mind them being on my disk. I kind of leave them on there though I would like it for it to delete the mail off the server. Once it downloads to my disk
That is the POP3 usecase, ideally you can also use POP3 for that if you’d like (and normally downloading with POP does indeed delete them from the server). It’s not how imap works normally however (It is ment primarily to keep the mail on the server)
True there is always that