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A week after it was launched, Letters.app development is full steam ahead. Gus Mueller of Flying Meat Inc. has been appointed technical lead for the project and has committed to providing an initial project workspace via GitHub over the weekend. Brent Simmons, who kicked the project off last Saturday, has agreed to take on the position of Chairman, a title representing his contributions so far, but not demanding any formal responsibilities.

Gus has chosen MailCore as the foundation for Letters’ IMAP and SMTP functionality. It has been forked as LetterBox for Letters, a fitting name.

According to the @lettersapp Twitter account the initial builds are compiling. But there has been no additional word on when the infant code will be released to hundreds of developers clamoring to get started.

Discussion has been ongoing concerning on local cache formats, multiple view windows (like Mail.app), tabbed layouts (like The Hit List or NetNewsWire), and automating build numbers from Git repositories. Discussion is sure to pick up as more people begin to dig into the code this weekend.