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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 (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?
I think the GUI stacks are too bloated or too hideous (electron, cpp/qt,c# and it's limitations, etc...) to work with these days so much that the cool kids (hardcore techy people) just gave up and started doing TUIs to solve their own problems directly?
With all respect for the hard work done on this client, but is it just me or is the TUI getting too much attention recently?? I think the GUI stacks are too bloated or too hideous (electron, cpp/qt,c# and it's limitations, etc...) to work with these days so much that the cool kids (hardcore techy people) just gave up and started doing TUIs to solve their own problems directly?
I would love to see a language agnostic UI stack that can run across platforms, to an extent Electron is "language agnostic" since you write the UI in whatever language you want, you just then compile it to JS (and eventually WebAssembly).
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…
(By the way, cheers for participating on the fediverse, and not legacy silos!!)
Woohoo! Hope this project gets a lot of love and support, because this has always been my preferred way to view threads.
Can anyone recommend a more complete Linux mail client (TUI or GUI) that works this way, akin to Gmail's conversation view? Thunderbird theoretically can with some extensions but I've never quite managed to get it to work right.
My other issue with switching to a TUI mail client would be that piping html mail to w3m and replying to it in plaintext (or writing html by hand in response) just never seemed robust enough to deal with a wide cross section of office worker humanity and their image/formatting/table-laden mails... Ah well, a man can dream.
> one row per thread Woohoo! Hope this project gets a lot of love and support, because this has always been my preferred way to view threads. Can anyone recommend a more complete Linux mail client (TUI or GUI) that works this way, akin to Gmail's conversation view? Thunderbird theoretically can with some extensions but I've never quite managed to get it to work right. My other issue with switching to a TUI mail clien…
In my experience, lynx is superior for this task. You can use this line in your ~/.mailcap:
text/html; lynx -stdin -dump -force_html -width 70; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; test=type lynx >/dev/nullAlso, there is mention of a mastodon account to follow for further announcements...but wasn't clickable/didn't work...Anyone know what the account is? (By the way, cheers for participating on the fediverse, and not legacy silos!!)