[HN Gopher] A Minimal Email Client
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A Minimal Email Client
Author : reimertz
Score : 64 points
Date : 2021-02-24 10:52 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (manuelmoreale.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (manuelmoreale.com)
| ourcat wrote:
| I once built an email client in (JSP-generated) WML for the first
| WAP phones.
|
| It doesn't get less minimal than that ;)
| butz wrote:
| Got to love modern software that still allows so much
| customization.
| muhammadusman wrote:
| Off topic: what are you using to build your blog? It's very
| minimal and clean.
| manuelmoreale wrote:
| It's a custom design built using Kirby 3 (https://getkirby.com)
| and runs on a DO server. If you need more info let me know ;)
| tyingq wrote:
| This is in the source: <!-- Micro Blog Ver -->
| <link href="https://micro.blog/manuelmoreale" rel="me">
|
| Though they seem to be Linode hosted, and this blog is on
| DigitalOcean, so maybe a leftover bit of html from some
| previous version of the blog.
| manuelmoreale wrote:
| It's a leftover from when I was playing with Micro Blog (big
| fan of that project/platform). You can also probably find
| some leftover code from when I was trying to implement direct
| publishing via Micropub and iA Writer (and I failed
| miserably)
| thegeekbin wrote:
| It looks like it's probably generated with Hugo
| dumb1224 wrote:
| I'm surprised no one mentioned Mutt + Maildir? I'm by no means a
| power-user but I really love it and find it very responsive for
| downloaded emails.
| pge wrote:
| or mutt + offlineimap
| alfiedotwtf wrote:
| I'm a mutt + local postfix person. I love it's simplicity and
| not needing to leave the terminal. Also, having it in a tmux is
| only a few keystrokes away
| AdieuToLogic wrote:
| My favourite minimal email client was nmh[0]. Essentially, all
| mail client commands are their own programs. This made extending
| it as easy as writing whatever scripts you want.
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| 0 - http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/
| emmelaich wrote:
| Does it support maildir? Also, last time I used nmh it all
| sorts of issues with weird mail.
|
| I'm not sure I trust it security wise.
| nunodonato wrote:
| For some reason reminded me of the BeOS/Haiku email interface
| gspr wrote:
| Tangentially related: I really like the approach of mu [1]. Let
| other software (like mbsync) handle IMAP synchronization of a
| local maildir, let other software (like msmtp) handle sending,
| and focus on doing really good, flexible and efficient queries of
| the local maildir. Then you can build whatever thin, simple GUI
| on top of that.
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| [1] https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/
| kgwxd wrote:
| I like the idea of that approach too but I tried to set it up a
| few years ago and it was pretty painful. So I never got to
| fully functional. Are you actually using that set up and if so,
| do you think it's worth the effort?
| gspr wrote:
| Been using it for 3 years. Loving it. Let me know if you
| wanna see the configuration files.
| ashton314 wrote:
| I use mbsync, mu, and the Emacs client mu4e, and I've never
| been happier with my mail. Pretty straight-forward setup.
| shakow wrote:
| A surprisingly pleasant, albeit convoluted, way to install it
| is, if you're already using Nix and/or NixOS, to use home-
| manager (https://rycee.gitlab.io/home-manager/) for that. You
| just have to set the settings of your account, and it will
| automagically link together msmtp, mu, offlineimap and
| emacs/astroid.
| njhaveri wrote:
| Haha, having worked on email clients, this gave me a good laugh.
| People use them in all sorts of different ways - part of what
| makes them tricky to build. Very clever customization though!
| alberth wrote:
| A minimal client that I've enjoyed is https://www.yourtempo.co
|
| Lots of screenshots at link above.
| james_pm wrote:
| Sadly that's not an email client, but rather a Gmail client.
| DarwinMailApp wrote:
| The simplicity of this client is quite beautiful.
|
| I wonder though, how do you keep the client minimal, while also
| maintaining a useful level of functionality?
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| It's something I've tackled with over the years while developing
| DarwinMail[1]. I've always tried to keep the UI clean and clutter
| free, while still providing all the functionality the user would
| like (that I learn about from feedback and also from other tools
| research).
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| I'd love to hear your thoughts on how you decide what features
| make the cut, and how they are designed?
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| [1] https://www.darwinmail.app
| chadstur wrote:
| I'm a mail.app user and enjoy minimal email client interfaces.
| Problem is, for large inboxes, I find mail.app's search very
| inadequate. More often than not I'm opening gmail's web app to
| find what I'm looking for.
| ubermonkey wrote:
| When you say "mail.app" do you mean on a Mac?
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| Because I have some pretty large mailboxes on my Mac, and
| Mail.app searches/indexes them like a champ. The search, in
| fact, is what KEEPS me on Mail.app -- it would be way more
| convenient for me professionally to surrender to Outlook, and
| Mac Outlook is really not bad, but holy hell is Outlook's
| search GARBAGE compared to the Mac client.
| njovin wrote:
| Same here which is why I switched to using a desktop mail
| client that just wraps the Gmail web interface (there are a few
| out there). Gmail itself is pretty minimal (when you turn off a
| lot of the junk in settings) and this way I get the power of
| Gmail's native search along with nice desktop notifications.
| blissofbeing wrote:
| You then might enjoy mimestream[1], I think of it as a native
| mac gmail client, no wrapper around gmail.com just using
| gmail APIs.
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| 1: https://mimestream.com/
| nimvlaj30 wrote:
| Is this even possible in Big Sur?
| fredsted wrote:
| Seems so. You can hide both sidebars in the main window by
| resizing them smaller, hiding icons in the toolbar is also
| possible.
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