[HN Gopher] A Minimal Email Client ___________________________________________________________________ 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. | | 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. | | [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? | | 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). | | I'd love to hear your thoughts on how you decide what features | make the cut, and how they are designed? | | [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? | | 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. | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-02-25 23:01 UTC)