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My spanish is worse than my english, and even I can tell what the name of this boat means.

I played with Zoe a bit today, based on a fairly enthusiastic article I read about it. The promise is good, but I wasn't able to make it work on my machine for multiple reasons -- my work account doesn't permit IMAP connections from inside the network (!!), and Outlook doesn't like forwarding all outgoing mail across SMTP instead of MAPI. In addition, I couldn't use IMAP against my home account, because A) it requires IMAP/SSL, and B) the JavaMail API or the webform configuration in Zoe doesn't like non-alphanumerica characters in the password, which mine includes.

So, I tried digging into the code. Bad idea. It includes Apple-specific library files (from the WebObjects framework), and stranger still, all of the Java files are not properly stored in hierarchical directories mapping to the package structure, but all in one directory.

I'm lazy enough that if I wanted to reuse some of this, I'd print out the interesting bits, and rewrite the rest from scratch. I don't know if I'm that ambitious, though, when I know there'll be ten different versions with more features in a month after this gets popular. I'll just watch freshmeat.

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