Archive for December, 2005



New Kiwi Screenshot

Here’s a new Kiwi screenshot:

Subtle Errors and CoreData

Ideally in Kiwi, everything would be pulled from the server during launch, but this limits Spotlight integration and it makes offline reading of e-mail impossible. I originally toyed around with storing e-mail in the MH mail format because it’s an open format and every message has it’s own file. Persistence is never easy, especially when […]

del.icio.us

I never realized how much I rely on del.icio.us until it’s gone down. It’s down right now and the site says:
del.icio.us is down for emergency maintenance. we’ll be back as soon possible.
I wonder what that’s about?

Why I chose CoreData over Maildir

I’ve gotten a few e-mails now from people asking me why I have chosen CoreData over a standard mail format like Maildir. Kiwi will support Maildir for importing and exporting your mail (via Libetpan), but it will not be using it as it’s primary storage method. Here’s a few of the pro’s and con’s for […]