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 +====== Comparison of existing email clients ======
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 +For the next evolution of Mail2Voice, we need to start from a solid, proven and flexible existing client. To help deciding which software fits our needs the best, this page review as much FLOSS clients as possible. 
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 +Given our constraints, the review criteria will be the following:
 +  * Software License (GPL, MIT, etc.)
 +  * Confidence (low, medium, high): does the software seems to be reliable, maintained, etc? 
 +  * Community activity (low, medium, high): is there a community support? Is the development team close to the community?
 +  * Platforms (Windows, Linux, OS X, etc.)
 +  * Development language(s)
 +  * Customizable theme/UI (yes/no, limitations)
 +  * Accessibility potential (name of the UI toolkit or any a11y related information)
 +  * Internationalization (i18n) system
 +
 +When there is no info available for a criteria, the mention N/A is displayed.
 +
 +===== List of clients =====
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 +^Name ^License ^Confidence ^Community ^Platforms ^Languages ^Custom UI ^Accessibility ^I18n ^Notes ^
 +|Alpine|Apache License v2|low|low (no ML)|Linux/Windows|C|?|?|?|maintained with patches, this project seems a bit hard to follow.|
 +|Claws Mail|GPL v3|high|high|Linux/Windows|C|No|GTK+ toolkit|gettext (PO files)|-|
 +|<del>Gnus</del>|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|Emacs extension|
 +|<del>Mulberry</del>|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|Last update 21-Feb-2007|
 +|<del>Mutt</del>|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|Require Cygwin etc on windows|
 +|<del>SOGo</del>|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|Groupware|
 +|Sylpheed|GPL|?|?|?|?|?|GTK+|Yes|Japanese Wiki|
 +|<del>Zimbra Desktop</del>|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|Commercial project|
 +|<del>SeaMonkey</del>|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|All-in-one Internet suite.|
 +|Thunderbird|MPL|high|high|Linux/OSX/Windows|C, C++, JavaScript, CSS, XUL, XBL|[[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Window_layout_-_Thunderbird|Yes?]] |Mozilla products are known to be accessible.|Yes|-|