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Posting this here because it has been mentioned in some of the recent mutt-related stories, and I just made a new release. The recent release doesn't have too

Posting this here because it has been mentioned in some of the recent mutt-related stories, and I just made a new release. The recent release doesn't have too many changes, primarily because it is pretty stable & reliable. But a new release is always time for a minor celebration.

dvfjsdhgfv 9y ago
Why should I choose your project instead of Neomutt?
- stevekemp 9y ago
  If you're happy with Neomutt then there is probably no single reason to switch. But if you're just an old-style Mutt user, or you've been using pine, etc, then you might appreciate the flexibility. The client is a little opinionated, and different, because it is purely modal. But because Lua is used to present the core UI it is possible to change things in fun ways. For example in mutt you can change the format that is used to display the list of messages in a folder. lumail allows the same, but it allows more. For example if you have twitter notifications you'll see the "From" header is like this: Bob Smith (via Twitter)" <notify@twitter.com> I have this function defined to change that: function on_cleanup_name(name) -- Remove "(via Twitter)" if present name = string.gsub(name, "%(via Twitter%)", "" ) -- Remove leading/trailing spaces. name = (name:gsub("^%s*(.-)%s*$", "%1")) -- more stuff here .. return(name) end That's perhaps not a terribly useful thing to do, but it is little things like that which add up to much more flexibility.
agumonkey 9y ago
Made me want to try my dillo+lua idea again ..
- stevekemp 9y ago
  That would be great to see!
  - agumonkey 9y ago
    It works, and by works there's lua.h somewhere... hum. I also linked sqlite to remove dillo tiny bookmarking feature. In a way I wanted to make the browser a tinier brick; emacsish through lua, so you can improve it as you see fit.
WalterGR 9y ago
recent mutt-related stories In the past month, I find only this one: Switching to the Mutt Email Client https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14567074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14567074 263 points by ingve 23 days ago | 241 comments Am I missing others?
- jasonkostempski 9y ago
  I remember there being a few over the past few months because, after a few years mulling over it, I finally made the leap to mutt based on them. Also remember lumail being mentioned, but I didn't try it.
  - WalterGR 9y ago
    Hmm... If you remember which submissions, I'd be interested in knowing what they are. I need to find something other than Thunderbird.
    - jasonkostempski 9y ago
      The posts didn't convince me to switch, they just reminded me it existed. I'm using mutt specifically because I want far less functionality in my email client, probably not for everyone. No contact/calendar integration, moving things is a pain, searching is a pain. I'm sure there are good solution for these issues but I just want to get emails in an inbox and send them out an outbox. If I need more, I move the useful information from the email to a tool better suited for the job (e.g. file system, database, version control).

dvfjsdhgfv 9y ago

Why should I choose your project instead of Neomutt?

stevekemp 9y ago
If you're happy with Neomutt then there is probably no single reason to switch. But if you're just an old-style Mutt user, or you've been using pine, etc, then you might appreciate the flexibility. The client is a little opinionated, and different, because it is purely modal. But because Lua is used to present the core UI it is possible to change things in fun ways. For example in mutt you can change the format that is used to display the list of messages in a folder. lumail allows the same, but it allows more. For example if you have twitter notifications you'll see the "From" header is like this: Bob Smith (via Twitter)" <notify@twitter.com> I have this function defined to change that: function on_cleanup_name(name) -- Remove "(via Twitter)" if present name = string.gsub(name, "%(via Twitter%)", "" ) -- Remove leading/trailing spaces. name = (name:gsub("^%s*(.-)%s*$", "%1")) -- more stuff here .. return(name) end That's perhaps not a terribly useful thing to do, but it is little things like that which add up to much more flexibility.

agumonkey 9y ago

Made me want to try my dillo+lua idea again ..

stevekemp 9y ago
That would be great to see!
- agumonkey 9y ago
  It works, and by works there's lua.h somewhere... hum. I also linked sqlite to remove dillo tiny bookmarking feature. In a way I wanted to make the browser a tinier brick; emacsish through lua, so you can improve it as you see fit.

WalterGR 9y ago

recent mutt-related stories In the past month, I find only this one: Switching to the Mutt Email Client https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14567074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14567074 263 points by ingve 23 days ago | 241 comments Am I missing others?

jasonkostempski 9y ago
I remember there being a few over the past few months because, after a few years mulling over it, I finally made the leap to mutt based on them. Also remember lumail being mentioned, but I didn't try it.
- WalterGR 9y ago
  Hmm... If you remember which submissions, I'd be interested in knowing what they are. I need to find something other than Thunderbird.
  - jasonkostempski 9y ago
    The posts didn't convince me to switch, they just reminded me it existed. I'm using mutt specifically because I want far less functionality in my email client, probably not for everyone. No contact/calendar integration, moving things is a pain, searching is a pain. I'm sure there are good solution for these issues but I just want to get emails in an inbox and send them out an outbox. If I need more, I move the useful information from the email to a tool better suited for the job (e.g. file system, database, version control).