[Off Topic]: Speedy Mail 2.0 - a new webmail platform in Python and Django

[Uri Even-Chen]

To Linux-IL people,

I'm interested in creating a new webmail platform based on Python and
Django, which will be free software & open source - Speedy Mail 2.0 (Speedy
Mail 1.0 and 1.1 were based on a Perl software - Endymion MailMan web-mail,
from 2000 to 2005). I want Speedy Mail 2.0's features to be as similar as
possible to Gmail - with labels (a message can have several labels, or
none), filters (to apply labels automatically, skip the inbox, mark as read
etc.), 12 different stars, composing more than one mail at a time, etc. I
would like to know if there is any free software in Python and Django we
can base Speedy Mail on, or maybe something in another language (such as
PHP) which we can convert to Python and Django? And are you interested in
helping me develop Speedy Mail, or do you know where I can find developers
who may be interested?

By the way, is there a simple way to convert PHP software to Python, or do
we have to rewrite it again line by line? I found some free software
packages for webmail, some of them are in Python (Mailpile, Modoboa) and
some in PHP (Roundcube, AfterLogic), and there are others not listed here.

Which protocols we should use to connect to the mail server? I understand
that IMAP has folders but not labels/tags, does it mean we can't use it? Is
it better to use POP3?

Which license do you recommend using? I'm thinking about using the GNU
Affero General Public License (Affero GPL), you can read about it on the
GNU website - it's like the GPL but also requires to publish the source
code if you use it on a server. I think I prefer this license to ensure
that if people or companies use my software, they will publish their source
code (of course this will have to be enforced).

Thanks,
Uri.

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Email: uri at speedy.net
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