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Voting for the first Letters.app project president has wrapped up and John Gruber has given the honor of steering the project towards a 1.0 release.

As president, Gruber has committed to lead by his gut, stay out of code or engineering details, but direct a group of focused people to produce a new kind of mail client: simple, correct, extensible.

John Gruber was relatively reserved on the list until the compaign letters were released. He jumped into the candidate Q&A session quickly, however, with quick, true-to-character responses. Gruber’s keen eye for detail and acute sense of taste should serve the project well into its first release. In the coming days, Gruber’s A-Team should emerge.

In addition to all of the election a Letters.app, a Github repository and wiki have been set up as well.

Letters.app will be far from a full featured, every-man’s email client. Ornamental features like HTML message composition have almost been universally decried on the mailing list, and there is a strong consensus around doing a few things well and exposing hooks to allow plugins to do the rest. From the start Letters.app was proposed to be the client that power users have wanted: the good parts of Mail.app with none of the crap.