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Meli email client, pre-alpha release

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Re: Meli email client, pre-alpha release

#11

We seem to be experiencing a renaissance of TUI software, particularly email clients[1] and I couldn’t be happier. Email and TUI are such a natural fit. Make it work with your favorite editor and most nerds will switch. [1] https://aerc-mail.org/

I'm a TUI nerd and I love them... But I've used terminal emails recently... and hum, 80% of my emails involved pictures.

Re: Meli email client, pre-alpha release

#12
post #4

We seem to be experiencing a renaissance of TUI software, particularly email clients[1] and I couldn’t be happier. Email and TUI are such a natural fit. Make it work with your favorite editor and most nerds will switch. [1] https://aerc-mail.org/

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 s…

mail, pipes and grep?

Re: Meli email client, pre-alpha release

#14
post #11

We seem to be experiencing a renaissance of TUI software, particularly email clients[1] and I couldn’t be happier. Email and TUI are such a natural fit. Make it work with your favorite editor and most nerds will switch. [1] https://aerc-mail.org/

I'm a TUI nerd and I love them... But I've used terminal emails recently... and hum, 80% of my emails involved pictures.

That and html only messages are a problem indeed.

In macOS, however, it is trivial to pass it to quickview, which can display most anything.

Re: Meli email client, pre-alpha release

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post #11

We seem to be experiencing a renaissance of TUI software, particularly email clients[1] and I couldn’t be happier. Email and TUI are such a natural fit. Make it work with your favorite editor and most nerds will switch. [1] https://aerc-mail.org/

I'm a TUI nerd and I love them... But I've used terminal emails recently... and hum, 80% of my emails involved pictures.

OCR and image descriptions have come on leaps and bounds...

Re: Meli email client, pre-alpha release

#17
post #4

We seem to be experiencing a renaissance of TUI software, particularly email clients[1] and I couldn’t be happier. Email and TUI are such a natural fit. Make it work with your favorite editor and most nerds will switch. [1] https://aerc-mail.org/

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 s…

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

Re: Meli email client, pre-alpha release

#18
post #4

We seem to be experiencing a renaissance of TUI software, particularly email clients[1] and I couldn’t be happier. Email and TUI are such a natural fit. Make it work with your favorite editor and most nerds will switch. [1] https://aerc-mail.org/

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 s…

Isn’t this mh?

Re: Meli email client, pre-alpha release

#19
post #11

We seem to be experiencing a renaissance of TUI software, particularly email clients[1] and I couldn’t be happier. Email and TUI are such a natural fit. Make it work with your favorite editor and most nerds will switch. [1] https://aerc-mail.org/

I'm a TUI nerd and I love them... But I've used terminal emails recently... and hum, 80% of my emails involved pictures.

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Re: Meli email client, pre-alpha release

#20
post #11

We seem to be experiencing a renaissance of TUI software, particularly email clients[1] and I couldn’t be happier. Email and TUI are such a natural fit. Make it work with your favorite editor and most nerds will switch. [1] https://aerc-mail.org/

I'm a TUI nerd and I love them... But I've used terminal emails recently... and hum, 80% of my emails involved pictures.

Sounds like a mailcap problem? You can tell your client how to open every file imaginable. With mutt, I use an ascii preview of the image so I can screen out signatures and then when I open an image, it opens with an image viewer. I have websites, pdfs, doc, xls files all dumped to a text preview mode, then open them in an appropriate viewer if I feel the need further investigation. Turns out most of the time, those emails boil down to pictures you don't need (like logos and b roll headers) and a few words. Most of the joy of terminal email for me is filtering out all the cruft and being left with words.
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