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I, for one, want a pure command line based email client, not just a TUI client, that is well integrated with bash/zsh in an everyday use, e.g. $ inbox

by euske 7y ago

I, for one, want a pure command line based email client, not just a TUI client, that is well integrated with bash/zsh in an everyday use, e.g. $ inbox (shows the first 10 emails in the inbox) $ search from:john (shows emails from john with numbers) $ reply 4 (opens up vi to edit a reply to the email #4) ... I've been dreaming a client like this for decades, and actually started developing it, but the development is stagnating for now (due to the spec changes and other priorities).

dpifke 7y ago
Check out notmuch: https://notmuchmail.org/ https://notmuchmail.org/
tambourine_man 7y ago
I loved your take, haven’t thought of it that way, but it would be great. I hope you are able to go back to it.
sipior 7y ago
You might find mblaze (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze) interesting; it's not too far off from what you describe.
KC8ZKF 7y ago
mail, pipes and grep?
em-bee 7y ago
did you look at nmh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System
- euske 7y ago
  Actually, I was a big fan of MH. But it's quite old and full of gotchas. It doesn't have decent search functions either. Also I'd like to have something written in a modern scripting language (Python, JS, etc), as I don't want to worry about buffer overflow.
obrajesse 7y ago
Isn’t this mh?
- rout39574 7y ago
  yep
waddlesplash 7y ago
Haiku's mail system may be of interest to you -- the default UI is of course a GUI, but as the mails are stored as individual files, and their headers in extended attributes, you can use "query mail:from=john", etc. to filter mails, "mail" to send them, etc.
marttt 7y ago
You might also like neatmail: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatmail https://github.com/aligrudi/neatmail http://litcave.rudi.ir http://litcave.rudi.ir Or mother (and its, uh, "mother", nedmail) if you're a Plan9 person: http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/mother/ http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/mother/ http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/nedmail http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/nedmail

by euske 7y ago

dpifke 7y ago

Check out notmuch: https://notmuchmail.org/ https://notmuchmail.org/

tambourine_man 7y ago

I loved your take, haven’t thought of it that way, but it would be great. I hope you are able to go back to it.

sipior 7y ago

You might find mblaze (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze) interesting; it's not too far off from what you describe.

KC8ZKF 7y ago

mail, pipes and grep?

em-bee 7y ago

did you look at nmh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System

euske 7y ago
Actually, I was a big fan of MH. But it's quite old and full of gotchas. It doesn't have decent search functions either. Also I'd like to have something written in a modern scripting language (Python, JS, etc), as I don't want to worry about buffer overflow.

obrajesse 7y ago

Isn’t this mh?

rout39574 7y ago
yep

waddlesplash 7y ago

Haiku's mail system may be of interest to you -- the default UI is of course a GUI, but as the mails are stored as individual files, and their headers in extended attributes, you can use "query mail:from=john", etc. to filter mails, "mail" to send them, etc.

marttt 7y ago

You might also like neatmail: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatmail https://github.com/aligrudi/neatmail http://litcave.rudi.ir http://litcave.rudi.ir Or mother (and its, uh, "mother", nedmail) if you're a Plan9 person: http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/mother/ http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/mother/ http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/nedmail http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/nedmail