In February, Google acquired the iPhone mail search app reMail-and promptly removed it from the App Store. On Friday, reMail developer Gabor Csell announced that the reMail codebase is now open-source.
reMail provides a blazingly fast, impressively accurate search interface for Gmail and other IMAP email accounts. Or it did, until it was pulled from the store. Now, in theory, reMail - and its powerful functionality - can live again for those not lucky enough to own the app already. Cselle writes that his "hope is that developers interested in making email-related apps can use reMail code as a starting point."
So rather than some dark Google conspiracy to rid iPhone users of the pleasure of reMail, the acquisition was seemingly a talent-focused one, bringing Cselle - a former engineering intern on Gmail - ack into the Google fold.
The open-source project is available on Google Code, under the Apache License 2.0.
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