ASashton314·Jun 10, 2022
Would you count mu and mu4e?
https://github.com/djcb/mu
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mu
maildir indexer/searcher + emacs mail client + guile bindings
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1.7KGitHub stars
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maildir indexer/searcher + emacs mail client + guile bindings
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesQuickly find messages in your local Maildirs. Full replacement for Google mail and other centralized spying email systems. It uses https://github.com/djcb/mu and mutt https://www.mutt.org in ~/.bash_functions directly from shell, and displays emails
function search-messages () {
/usr/local/bin/mu find --clearlinks --format=links --linksdir=~/Maildir/search "$@" && mutt -f ~/Maildir/search
}
In Ask HN: Best things in your bash_profile/aliases?SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote
I would like to hire someone to do some open-source work on Emacs email, ideally directly for mu4e, but happy to publish this as a standalone package/gist/Emacs Wiki post. I don't have a huge budget, so this would probably be someone willing to do below-market work to contribute to the commmunity.
The problem (adding proper handling of iCal invitations) is already detailed in this issue[1].
[1]: https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/994
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In Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2018)I use mu4e[1] to read, search and refile my emails, and there's a keyboard shortcut for viewing an HTML email in a browser. offlineimap[2] handles inbound messages. I love it!
But for writing email, I still tend to jump over to Apple Mail. msmtp[3] handles outbound messages on those occasions when I choose to fire off a message from within mu4e.
[1] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html
[&] https://github.com/djcb/mu
[2] https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap
[3] http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/
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