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KidzMail
Building an email client for children
Issue: 4.3 (January/February 2006)
Author: Will Leshner
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Article Length (in bytes): 16,686
Starting Page Number: 11
RBD Number: 4308
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KidzMail is an email client designed so that even small children can send and receive email easily and safely. Children draw pictures that they send to people in their address book. Parents control the address book, so they know who their children are corresponding with. The address book, as well as every other part of the KidzMail interface, uses colors and pictures so that even children who can't read can use it.
This postmortem describes how KidzMail came about, and some of the REALbasic technologies that made it possible. I start off with a little bit of history, and then move on to talk about some of the technical aspects of developing KidzMail in REALbasic.
A Brief History Of KidzMail
Believe it or not, the idea for KidzMail grew out of my first publicly released "freeware" utility, which was a little POP3 client I called MailSniffer. It basically "sniffed" a POP3 mail account for new email and took one or more predefined actions based on what it found. To understand the usefulness of MailSniffer, you have to cast your mind back to 1996. On the Mac, if you wanted to do email, you probably used Eudora. Eudora was free and it worked really well. But, at that time, it only allowed you to check email for one email account.
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