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Geary is a free open source email client written in Vala that was mainly developed by Yorba Foundation. The name of this email client probably comes from the name of the street (Geary Street), Yorba Foundation was located in.〔 The purpose of this email client, according to Adam Dingle, Yorba founder, was to bring back users from online webmails to a faster and easier to use desktop applications.〔 As Yorba stopped its activities, and GNOME has not relealed its plans about this project yet, the development continues under the name of Pantheon Mail, a fork made by the elementary OS community. == History == People at Elementary OS directly supported〔 the project and Geary became the default application in that GNU/Linux distribution. On March 25th, 2013,〔〔 Jim Nelson, executive director at Yorba, launched a crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo to gather 100,000 USD that would have been used to pay the 3 full-time Yorba engineers that were working at that time on Geary. Among the proposed features that were proposed to be developed, we can cite: instant search, always-on notifications, support for all IMAP servers, auto saving of drafts, GPG, handle of calendar invites to your favorite calendar application and Google address book integrations.〔 Unfortunately, on April 24th 2013, only 50,860 USD were gathered from 1,192 backers. The amount was not met and the campaign failed. According to the rules fixed by IndieGoGo, Yorba did not receive a single cent of the money that has been pledged.〔〔〔 After this failure, Jim Nelson declared in a blog post this crowdfunding campaign was kind of an experiment to see if that route was enough to sustain open-source development. He reaffirmed Geary has been created to improve the Linux experience, and therefore have no chance of being ported to OS X or Windows platforms.〔 As Yorba Foundation stopped its activities and the future of this application was unclear, elementary OS still using this email client by default, has decided to fork the project on , renaming the project to Pantheon Mail during the process.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geary (software)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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