web.py on Mac OS X 10.7

Lion comes with Python 2.7.1 and easy_install is working so all you have to do is:

$ sudo easy_install web.py
Password:
Searching for web.py
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/web.py/
Reading http://webpy.org/
Best match: web.py 0.36
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/w/web.py/web.py-0.36.tar.gz#md5=3f9ee778c5c34357a0233c1f0e024d00
Processing web.py-0.36.tar.gz
Running web.py-0.36/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-qC65Ak/web.py-0.36/egg-dist-tmp-CjDoLl
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
web.application: module references __file__
web.debugerror: module references __file__
Adding web.py 0.36 to easy-install.pth file

Installed /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/web.py-0.36-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for web.py
Finished processing dependencies for web.py
$  

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Claws Mail Client

Thunderbird has been performing so badly that I've switched to Claws. The important features for me from Thunderibrd were satisfied by Claws:

• Quick response (Thunderbird was getting too slow)
• IMAP/SMTP over SSL
• Threaded View
• Emacs as my editor
• GPG Plugin
• Support for Zimbra tags
• Easy view of mail headers
• Some type of scripting support (Python and Perl)

It also has a calendar plugin I might try; I've been sticking with Zimbra webmail for calendars/contacts.

On Fedora you can easily install it with its plugins:

yum install claws-mail
 claws-mail-plugins-smime
 claws-mail-plugins-pgp 
 claws-mail-plugins-python