Kiwi

A next generation e-mail client, built for IMAP and Mac OS X.

We have a lot of great ideas on how e-mail clients can be improved, but in order to do that we need a base to work off of. By creating Kiwi we hope to build a robust client built off of a powerful open source email framework, MailCore. We think there's a lot of room for improvement with e-mail, and we're just getting started.

Our goal is to build an the top IMAP client on Mac OS X. Kiwi is built off of MailCore, a Cocoa e-mail framework, and LibEtPan, a C based library for working with e-mail protocols. Here's a few of our requirements for the base client:

• Address Book Integration (Because all Mac OS X citizens should take advantage of what's available)
• Spotlight Support (Now that we have it, we can't live with out it)
• High performance (We're all frustrated with the performance of both Mail.app and Thunderbird)
• Scalability (Kiwi can handle folders with up to 60,000 messages)
• Customizable (Kiwi uses the Lua scripting language for maximum flexibility)

Downloads

Get Kiwi, well, not quite yet.

We still have alot of work ahead of us, and Kiwi is not quite ready for primetime. Our first release isn't going to have all the wiz-bang features we'd like, but it's a starting point. Stay tuned.