Hallelujah! It’s raining mail!

Matt Mullenweg, the WordPress guru, is in the process of answering my prayers. I don’t know if he read my previous post on the subject, but his timing is impeccable.

He’s in the process of developing what seems to be Open Source GMail. Based on Procmail, Spam Assassin, PHP, and MySQL…hell, just read his words:

Imagine instant Gmail-type searching using FULLTEXT or LIKE. Imagine instant email backup using MySQL replication. Think email RSS feeds, keyed on searches or senders or anything. Don’t forget the interesting metrics that can be extracted from this as well.

And to top it all off, he’s entertaining suggestions.

I hope he comes up with a catchy name. I’m not worried about the product itself. He’s already proven himself to me.