Any hints at where the name comes from? It means "woman" in Toki Pona.
From the manpage meli(1) :
> NAME > Meli Mail User Agent. meli is the Greek word for honey
Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt
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Re: Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt
#22Tried this, it sat for 12 hours on "loading..." without success even though my inbox only has 17k mails in it. Given that neomutt is working fine, it's not a huge problem but it's always nice to have options.
Try using the latest commit if you're not already since the last tagged release had a lot of bugs that have been solved. Otherwise, could you file a bug in the issue tracker? https://git.meli.delivery/meli/meli/issues
Re: Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt
#23With (al)pine in contrast to mutt you at least have filtering rules to move a mail to a folder. I hope that this would be added to meli, too - that's the last thing I would consider missing when reading the docs on the website: https://meli.delivery/
Why not use procmail for it?
I'm not the grandparent poster, but I'm not sure if this is what they had in mind by "filtering rules". When I read the comment, I immediately thought of how I use procmail for live sorting of incoming mail, but I also occasionally pull out al(pine) for various manual sorting/rearranging tasks. I've always found its "broaden/narrow selection + zoom" tools to be pretty powerful. (Maybe mutt has tools of similar capability; I don't know.)
Re: Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt
#24I could welcome any comparison with aerc (https://aerc-mail.org).
Re: Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt
#25Tried this, it sat for 12 hours on "loading..." without success even though my inbox only has 17k mails in it. Given that neomutt is working fine, it's not a huge problem but it's always nice to have options.
> my inbox only has 17k mails in it I can't tell if you're intentionally joking or are actually unaware of that being maybe a little much.
It really shouldn't be too much. It's not the 80s.
The same letters slapped into SQLite the most brute way would work (and perform better), so why the embarrassing slowdown?
Re: Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt
#26Tried this, it sat for 12 hours on "loading..." without success even though my inbox only has 17k mails in it. Given that neomutt is working fine, it's not a huge problem but it's always nice to have options.
> my inbox only has 17k mails in it I can't tell if you're intentionally joking or are actually unaware of that being maybe a little much.
Is it much? I have around 120k emails in my inbox. macOS Mail.app opens it in a jiffy. Computers are supposed to be fast nowadays.
Re: Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt
#27Tried this, it sat for 12 hours on "loading..." without success even though my inbox only has 17k mails in it. Given that neomutt is working fine, it's not a huge problem but it's always nice to have options.
> my inbox only has 17k mails in it I can't tell if you're intentionally joking or are actually unaware of that being maybe a little much.
I have 93,000 emails in my mail spool, and it opens in Pine in about 30 seconds on a 1 GHz AlphaServer, even when lots of other stuff is running at the same time.
Re: Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not use procmail for it?
I'm not the grandparent poster, but I'm not sure if this is what they had in mind by "filtering rules". When I read the comment, I immediately thought of how I use procmail for live sorting of incoming mail, but I also occasionally pull out al(pine) for various manual sorting/rearranging tasks. I've always found its "broaden/narrow selection + zoom" tools to be pretty powerful. (Maybe mutt has tools of similar capabi…
Not exactly the same, but in mutt, there is a simple language which you can use to refer to a subset of the messages in your view. E.g. "~U" will match you unread messages, etc.
You can group tag messages on mutt with any pattern you'd like and then move them. Or, you can limit your view to what you want to move, select some and then move them.
Re: Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt
#29Love the recent efforts on building new terminal clients. I'm excited to try meli out. I've been using https://aerc-mail.org/ as a daily driver for several months, but excited to try some others in this space. I found mutt a bit intimidating to configure, where aerc and meli seem more straightforward.
Eh wow thanks for then tip (aerc) beeing a user of neomutt i definetly will try that one out.
Re: Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt
#30With (al)pine in contrast to mutt you at least have filtering rules to move a mail to a folder. I hope that this would be added to meli, too - that's the last thing I would consider missing when reading the docs on the website: https://meli.delivery/
Why not use procmail for it?
I did that, decades ago. Sieve is a very nice upgrade, safer, easier to read/write, and even had a web UI if you want.