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On Mar 25, 2007, at 8:17 pm, Tim Oey wrote:
I'm glad. I still have not yet used eMA yet but I still plan to. I'm still evaluating the best long term email archiving solutions for me. I currently use Eudora on the Mac. Eudora is transitioning from a commercial product to an open source product.
I've released one simple FileMaker solution under an open source license. If you would like to see how I did this, please see the solution (Coach's Game Card) as it is posted at:
As I just said in the message I just sent to Doug Rowe, I do not plan to handle or manage the open-sourcing of eMA. I think that might just slow it down further. I would follow its progress, try out the new releases, and comment on them, but cannot promise further activity. After all, my recent lack of time for it is why I proposed this in the first place. (Look at how long it took me to respond to these two messages!)
What is needed, if enough people are interested, is for them to say so on eMA-Talk, and start to work out what they can do for eMA together.
It is not clear from the responses so far that there enough such people, both for the FileMaker side and the AppleScript side. So, if volunteers are lurking here, but have not expressed any ideas yet, I hope that they will speak up.
I definitely hope that someone will not develop it further for just one email application. That would ruin one of the reasons that I started it, and how I have used it. On the other hand, I think my past attempts to support all past FileMaker versions, eMA versions, and OS versions back to OS 9 has got to be abandoned. Just the latest versions, and a way to import their old email if they want to.
In the meantime, until others set up a plan for taking it over, I will just keep on with my usual eMA development. Even if it is quite slow right now, at least I will be working on it for some time.
John
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