It's Programmer Law that everyone must write a mail client. This is mine.

An imap client, for the web.

written with Revel, a Hacker News darling framework.

Uses simple, in-memory data structures for session persistence.

Layers of abstraction, so far

             Server       Mailbox       Message
models:   ----------------------------------------
               imap.Client        tls.Config    

We can leverage the first-party crypto extension library go.crypto for PGP support

Mobile-first design, relying on Zurb Foundation with SCSS for styling.

Coffeescript.

Front-end JS frameworks ideas:

• aura.js :: http://aurajs.github.io/aura/
• Polymer if I'm feeling especially futuristic

possible compnents/widgets:

- Mailbox preview widget
- Message widget
    - message header
    - message footer
    - message body

• use notmuch for message indexing, search, and tags: :: http://notmuchmail.org/

• send mail via sendmail

• provide a GnuPG email interface that isn't total shit

  • it really shouldn't be too hard to imporve on the current things here
  • maybe this would be better suited to a seperate project