The whole tirade read like a thinly veiled "building an Electron-based MUA is just easier by now", which is a thing I've been contemplating toying with because, to paraphrase another well-known MUA, all those desktop email clients† flat out suck and the best ones are barely above the tolerable threshold.

> Why not do it in Rust and start with some of the Servo code as a base?

Thought about it, but I think Servo might just not be that ready yet given the expected timeframe. Could be of a great synergy and a nice real-life testbed for Servo though.

† I've extensively used a lot on various OSes, from Claws to Gmail (web) to mutt to Mail.app to Eudora to Fastmail (web) to Outlook to AirMail. For none of them could I ever say "nailed it" and while some do have their pluses they're all broken one way or another which brings the whole package down.