Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt

Post by akho » Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 10:00 PM UTC

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My very first email account (when starting university in the early 90s) was via Pine on a unix machine; and i loved it! Sure, the excitement of "a new tech thing" was there, but also the fast, productive simplicity of it all: i can send a message to someone anywhere in the world quite easily! Years later when i started getting into linux as my personal machine/daily driver, i tried using mutt. Mutt didn't stick for m…

I agree Pine was a cute little program, and it served many people well at the time. But the most important functions for me today in an email client are 1. fast search and 2. auto-complete of contacts and Pine/Alpine was lacking there. (Gmail has great search but its UX overall is lacking - I find it confusing in many ways and it suppresses important information (e.g. headers, sometimes even an e-mail's subject line)…

Post by BeetleB » Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 10:55 PM UTC

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You're probably looking for notmuch, which integrates very well with other tools. There's also mblaze ( https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze ) that might be of interest.

I heard of notmuch, but I remember I dismissed it for whatever reason. Perhaps as it's a text UI, rather than command line. However, mblaze looks very promising. Thanks for that. It's almost literally what I had in my minds eye. It's light on dependencies and also packaged for Alpine Linux which is a good sign, and means I'm already trying it! :)

Post by zbuf » Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 11:53 PM UTC

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I heard of notmuch, but I remember I dismissed it for whatever reason. Perhaps as it's a text UI, rather than command line. However, mblaze looks very promising. Thanks for that. It's almost literally what I had in my minds eye. It's light on dependencies and also packaged for Alpine Linux which is a good sign, and means I'm already trying it! :)

Notmuch is fully command line, there are any number of traditional cli commands, it’s a suite ala git but not a tui or anything: https://notmuchmail.org/doc/latest/ See for example notmuch-search and notmuch-tag. Maybe you are thinking of notmuch-emacs or some other full blown client. There are many https://notmuchmail.org/frontends/ Notmuch’s core is largely in C and I believe the only serious dependency is Xapian.

Post by Jorengarenar » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 12:34 AM UTC

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Oh, that's fair. I was questioning the reasonableness of having 17k emails but you're right, the software should be able to support it.

What are you doing with your old emails? Do you delete them? Or have you found a method to archive them that produces few folders with few emails in each and that works consistently over the decades? Because I haven't, and having everything in one folder works just fine with the clients I use.

Post by markdown » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 2:32 AM UTC