Comments on: Apollo Mail Client Version 0.3

By: Daniel Oliveira

Daniel Oliveira — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:24:49 +0000

cool! great job!

[]z from Brazil

By: davcom

davcom — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:44:11 +0000

Well, if it uses non-Apollo specific packages, it should be simple enough to port to MOXIE… Just change the ApolloApplication to WindowedApplication, and then look for the Apollo Specific packages and find their MOXIE equivalent, and that should do it

By: lav

lav — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:07:34 +0000

i got the message this application requires version of AIR which is no longer supported, please contract the author of this application
What a waste, this if forst application i downloaded after downloading the AIR and look what the message i m getting.

By: Roger Braunstein

Roger Braunstein — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:42:17 +0000

@Ralph, this demo was created for the Apollo alpha. The beta version of AIR doesn’t support this package. Maybe it’s time for me to upgrade the app, add in what’s missing, compile it for AIR beta, and open source it… Sounds like a lot of work XD

By: Ralph Krausse

Ralph Krausse — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:53:50 +0000

When I unzip and try to install it, I get this….

This application could not be installed or launched (AIR file C:\ApolloMail.air is invalid: This application requires a version of the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) which is no longer supported. Please contact the application author for an updated version.).

By: Roger Braunstein

Roger Braunstein — Wed, 30 May 2007 05:13:47 +0000

@Adrian, thanks for the heads-up! I’m not looking to make a cent off this product or even use it for anything other than education. Nor have I invested any time, money or effort into the name. Since it’s clearly not a competing product or impacting the name recognition of the real product, I don’t think there will be any problems. But I do appreciate the warning! Cheers, Roger

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 30 May 2007 02:36:45 +0000

If you’re thinking of spending any significant effort on this applicaton, you might want to think about changing the name since Apollo Mail already exists - I believe it’s copyright 2003. See http://www.apollomail.com/. It’s not worth the hassle of dealing with lawyers, if you ask me. I worked on the server side of this application, but the company that owns the rights currently is a different one than the one that initially published it.

Cheers

By: Roger Braunstein

Roger Braunstein — Wed, 16 May 2007 05:44:00 +0000

@Mark, why? Nobody’s really going to use this as an e-mail client. It’s just a toy.

@blaze, It only sends plain text emails right now.

The goal is not to make an email client with feature parity to a commercially available one. The goal is to see what’s possible with Apollo, share some lessons learned along the way, and maybe make a cool prototype of some alternate ways of interacting with data (thus, this part is more likely to be forthcoming than imap support).

By: blaze

blaze — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:06:02 +0000

Roger, how do you deal with uploading large files to the email server?

Do you do bandwidth checks to make sure you’re going fast / slow enough?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:39:48 +0000

Interesting have you thought about open sourcing it?

That way you might get the extra help to get imap and so on….

Regards

Mark

By: Roger Braunstein

Roger Braunstein — Wed, 02 May 2007 04:36:11 +0000

@Ronald, Yep!

By: Ronald

Ronald — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:42:41 +0000

Hi Roger!

It’s an interesting email application. Are you using actionscript socket programming to do the sending and receiving email functions ?

Best Regards
Ronald

By: Alexander Marktl

Alexander Marktl — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:06:04 +0000

Hi Roger!

Cool app. If you would like to share it with others you can upload to ApolloHunter.com

ApolloHunter is a site I recently created to share apollo apps.

Greetings,
Alex

By: Roger Braunstein

Roger Braunstein — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:25:50 +0000

@Leonardo:
Thanks for the comment! I may add IMAP support. However, I recommend against using this as an actual email client, as it is not feature complete and not very efficient. I will be using this as a platform to explore alternate means of visualizing your correspondence, and to explore the limits of the Apollo runtime.

By: Leonardo França

Leonardo França — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:17:05 +0000

great!!!
future it will have has supported imap?