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MailSuite - Unified access to all messages, any time, any location, any device.

Unified access to all messages, any time, any location, any device.
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Kiwi - A next generation e-mail client, built for IMAP and Mac OS X

Kiwi, a next generation e-mail client, built for IMAP and Mac OS X.

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We have a lot of great ideas on how e-mail clients can be improved, but in order to do that we need a base to work off of. By creating Kiwi we hope to build a robust client built off of a powerful open source email framework, MailCore. We think there's a lot of room for improvement with e-mail, and we're just getting started.

Our goal is to build an the top IMAP client on Mac OS X. Kiwi is built off of MailCore, a Cocoa e-mail framework, and LibEtPan, a C based library for working with e-mail protocols. Here's a few of our requirements for the base client:

  • Address Book Integration (Because all Mac OS X citizens should take advantage of what's available)
  • Spotlight Support (Now that we have it, we can't live with out it)
  • High performance (We're all frustrated with the performance of both Mail.app and Thunderbird)
  • Scalability (Kiwi can handle folders with up to 60,000 messages)
  • Customizable (Kiwi uses the Lua scripting language for maximum flexibility)

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