Grendel:Outstanding Issues

There are still a number of issues to be worked on before it can be called a useful mailer. Grendel is usable right now, though some necessary features haven't been implemented yet.

Please see the Development Document for more details.

General

• Move to XUL instead of Grendel-specific XML format. (Bug 293079)
• Build system moved to Ant (Bug 292916)
• Resources contained in resources-specific directory instead of flying all over the place.
• Nightly builds in 2 steps max (part of ant changes in Bug 292916)

News

• State Keeping (.newsrc file)
• Caching
• Improved news server compatibility
• Posting capability

POP3

• Downloading POP mail to local store
• Statekeeping for "leave mail on server" user pref
• Caching for remotely viewed POP mail

IMAP

• Caching

UI

• Drag & Drop conversion from builtin grendel.dnd to Java 2 java.awt.dnd, or vast improvements in the builtin grendel.dnd code.

HTML Message Viewing

• Lots of issues. Lots more to be done.
• Requires additional formating
• HTML Messages nead to be cleaned prior to being displayed

Stuff not yet implemented

• Message Search
• Message Filters

Addressbook also needs improvements.