On 2026-05-31 at 11:21:02 UTC-0400 (Sun, 31 May 2026 16:21:02 +0100)
Matthias via mailmate <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
on Sun, 31 May 2026 13:36:57 +0200
Robert M. Münch <[email protected]> whispered:
I want to get some best practices and thoughts on the future of local
email clients, which I much prefer to using a web mailer, and on the
deeper integration of AI agents as the universal assistant into
almost
any application. However, most of these applications are web-based.
Mailmate is a IMAP-mail client - imho the best and should't do
anything
else.
+1
It is also extremely open in its core data format, so an external tool
can easily access the whole raw data set.
It is best to keep tools well-defined, with an easily defined and
confined scope. I will die on this hill...
If Benny implements stuff like that, I'll delete MM and install Claws
Mail on my Mac as well.
I would certainly go on the hunt for a new MUA if MM were to make it
difficult to avoid and ignore any LLM integration.
I understand that Benny may feel it necessary to enable users to corrupt
their email with statistically contrived text, as people seem to like
that, but I hope he does not fall victim to the hogwash hype of using
LLMs to write software.
To understand that risk, one need only look at the disaster that came to
the Rsync project when Tridge took on his new coding partner, Claude:
lots of commits, lots of really weird new bugs, and a new test
collection that no one understands. And a tool that was essentially
complete, stable, and universally relied-upon has lost trust to the
point where OS distros are pegging it at the last pre-Claude version and
looking at alternative implementations.
Some people consider LLMs to be intrinsically dangerous to have any
contact with. I'm not *quite* that superstitious but I do see the risks.
I prefer to let others take them, if they are eager.
--
Bill Cole
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(AKA @[email protected] and many *@billmail.scconsult.com
addresses)
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