neatojones: While I like Tear etc, I think Modest and MicroB are good things to have available in Mer. At the very least, it will let people (like me) running a hybrid system (via chroot or whatever) have access to apps they are comfortable with. I didn't realize that they were both open source...

EDIT: Well I'll be darned, there it is! <Ubuntu Modest>
EDIT2: There's an installation conflict between Stskeep's gtkhtml0 package and Ubuntu's libgtkhtml3.14-19. Is there a reason why this package is in two places with two different names?

You can use webkit as a MicroB backend with the webkit-eal project.

Good luck with buying a house! I guess it is a buyer's market right now...