Creating an email client

Question

Programming

Friends!

I apologize in advance for a stupid question - I don’t understand anything at all in programming, but you need to ask :)

In general, the question is how difficult it is to write your mail client under Win, which will have a minimum of functions, such as, for example, sending / receiving mail ( pop/smtp), mail folder sorting, and standard mail functions — copies, files, forwards?

That is, roughly speaking, you need the standard functionality of a web mail client, only on the desktop.

Is this task difficult, or can any programmer with the slightest degree of sanity write such a program in a couple of days?

Answer 1

why write when there are already a lot of ready-made options

Answer 2

You can't write an adequate email client in a couple of days. In 2-4 weeks, you can write a working application that can be called an email client, but it will be able to do quite a bit. The main difficulty lies not in sending and receiving letters, but in editing the letter. If you want the ability to visually edit, as in popular clients, then these are months and years of development.

Answer 3

www.simail.si/ , ironfist.at.tut.by/zeratrus.htm , www.pc-tools.net/win32/jbmail/ , www.koomail.com/ etc., etc.
What is the point of starting to create YOUR program when there are ALREADY a lot of READY solutions?!

Answer 4

Still looking at what to write on ... Look, I tried it on WinApi - hellish torments. In C#, it seems to be simpler, but all the same, so that at least with a more or less normal design, 2 weeks is definitely needed.

Answer 5

Write a console client in Perl, from two modules, one receives and decomposes letters into folders and sends them from the folder specified as send. I think it will be useful.
At first, it will be possible to use third-party clients to view mail, and then work on the rest.