[2008-08-26 18:11] pancake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have been thinking these days on writing something suckless for > managing my mail. I don't know if any of you is happy with any mail > client, but I do not feel comfortable with any of them.
you're not the only one ;-) > This is why I am thinking on writing a set of small tools for managing > the mail in a minimalistic way. > > What I have in mind is something more simple that can be done without > many LOCs and splitting the problem in multiple programs will achieve a > better. have a look at `nmh' It's probably not the smallest set of tools, but it's designed with the Unix philosophy in mind. It uses the shell als interface to the tools, so everything is combinable with `sed', `awk' and arbitrary hand-written tools. > - pop3 client there are a lot of existing ones I still use `fetchmail' but there should be some small ones. You should do a good search first > - imap client (dont use that) > - smtp client That's called a MTA `qmail' looks small (20k SLOC) `masqmail' is even smaller (10k SLOC) (I'll start my diploma thesis about the latter in 3 weeks, and plan to maintain it in future.) > - mbox/mdir client with support for mime > - frontend shell or so see `nmh' > Im currently out of time for coding such stuff, but I think that maybe > there's more people interesting on finding an almost decent solution for > reading the mail without those complications. I currently read a (free available) book about `MH' and `nmh'. I will post a link tomorrow. > What do you think? are you happy with your MUA? `mutt' that I use is not too bad, but it has structural and conceptual disharmonies ... that's what I dont like on it. But for the amount of mails I have to manage, `mailx' isnt really usable. I'm looking forward in deep-testing `nmh'. meillo
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