netzooid

I’m thinking about switching all Envoi Solution’s email to be hosted on GMail, with their hosted applications. I like Gmail in general, but one thing is getting to me: the lack of true support for email on the desktop. POP is rather lame and doesn’t provide access to all of GMail’s capabilities.

There happen to be two pieces of software which have been created to accomplish this goal. However they are both broken and seem unmaintained.

• GmailerXP: This has a nice interface, but just doesn’t seem to work. It was last updated in 2004, so I’m guess the GMail API has changed a bit since then. I tried downloading the sources, but I’m not really sure whats going on.
• Gmailclipse: I can actually log in to this one, but I can’t read my messages as I get a NullPointerException. No sources available currently.

I’ve emailed both the authors in an attempt to get them to try fixing things up a bit. Will post an update if I hear back.

Anyone know of others?

This entry was posted on Saturday, November 18th, 2006 at 12:42 pm and is filed under Random.