Archive for the 'Kiwi' Category



With talk of email clients in the air, I started seriously thinking about making Kiwi closed source, something I have been considering for 6 months. In my last post I brought this issue up, and all the e-mail and comments regarding a close source Kiwi have been very positive. The consensus is: go for it.
That’s […]

The state of email

Email has struck a cord with many prominent Mac bloggers:

No suitable email apps for Mac OS X
The Rise of the OS
It could work: a 3rd party email client for OS X
The Rise Of The OS
The state of Mac email
Daring Fireball
Regarding Mail Pro
Free advice about a pro email client
Dear Apple, we want MailKit
Restarting Innovation
Michael Tsai: Restarting […]

MailCore 0.2.6

New version of MailCore!
Version 0.2.6

Updated to LibEtPan 0.49
Built an entirely new MIME parsing component. Eventually I will expose this so others can build up or parse complex MIME structures if necessary.
Improved fetching of body text for messages, there are still a few edge cases that aren’t taken care of, but it’s much better, see README.txt […]

The current design
Kiwi’s design has gone through a number of iterations, and each iteration has reduced the amount of code, bettered the design, and brought us one step closer to a beta release. Kiwi’s current design has served us well, but we are beginning to near the end. We could trod forward, but things no […]

It’s moving time.

I’ve been working on migrating my sites over to my shiny, new virtual private server. Like always, it’s taking longer than anticipated, mostly because of a lack of sysadmin experience on Debian. I’m learning quickly, and I have a few things setup, like the main Kiwi website, and a wiki run off of MoinMoin.
I’m […]

Kiwi progress…

Progress has been slow on Kiwi lately, and I apologize for that. I’m a student as many of you know, and I seem to have a ton of projects and homework assignments floating around. Recently, there’s been a bit of progress, like builds no longer fail (yaay!). The client is still not functional in it’s […]