Google Makes reMail Open Source

Last month Google acquired reMail, a popular email client for the iPhone. The app was subsequently removed from the App Store so the new talent could work on other projects.

Today reMail announced that they have made the code open source and it is now available on Google Code as remail-iphone.

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. Part of the reason email apps are hard is because you have to pay the tax of figuring out how to download email via IMAP, parse MIME messages, handle attachments, and store data. reMail has already solved these problems. If you have a great mobile email idea, I hope you will find reMail's source code helpful in your quest.

I put some effort into documenting the source code so you can get started on your ideas quickly. If you like reMail and want to improve it, I have also listed some potential projects with implementation tips. Most of these projects are features that users have requested in the past. I encourage you to contribute improvements back to the project. I've also created the group remail-iphone on Google Groups, which is a great place to ask questions. Best of luck with your projects!

Even if the source code isn't reworked into a new iPhone app, making it open source is a great help to those learning how to develop for the iPhone OS.

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