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> Is "reading an email" one thing? And "writing an email" another thing? What about "spellchecking the email"? What about "managing all my email contacts"? What
by lmz 11y ago
> Is "reading an email" one thing? And "writing an email" another thing? What about "spellchecking the email"? What about "managing all my email contacts"? What about "back up my emails"? What about "sign email with GPG"?
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> Do all of these things really need a separate program?
There was a suite of programs that worked that way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System
- drauh 11y agoYup. I used it for a few years. It also had a Tk-based GUI. Every email message is a single file. "Folders" are directories. So you can use your usual text-processing commandline stuff: grep, sed, awk, etc. http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/shomes.html#WeOBeYRe http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/shomes.html#WeOBeYRe Using MIME or GPG required a little configuration (mostly preset properly) which hooked external programs to preprocess before sending or displaying the message.