Google open sources reMail

“Following its recent acquisition by Google last month and
removal from the App Store, reMail has now been released to the
open source community. According to reMail founder and Gmail
Product Manager Gabor Cselle, the iPhone OS mail client is being
open sourced because he and his team will instead be focusing on
other projects at Google. ‘As someone who is passionate about
mobile email, my hope is that developers interested in making
email-related apps can use reMail code as a starting point,’ said
Cselle.

“The reMail application allows users to download all of their
email to their phone and search through it offline. The developers
claim that the application is up to five times faster than the
built in Mail.app when, for example, connecting to Gmail accounts
and say that reMail only uses approximately 5 MB of space for every
1,000 emails it stores. Support for reMail is currently being
phased out and will no longer be available at the end of
March.”

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