lumail
Productivity
email client
SHOW HN2017
78points
22comments
#565of 2,242 in 2017
Top 26%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Lua scripting makes the client flexible and fun to customise
From 2 comments
If you're happy with Neomutt then there is probably no single reason to switch. But if you're just an old-style Mutt user, or you've been using pine, etc, then you might…
stevekemp on HNI love everything Lua. Going to have to try this out tonight.
mileycyrusXOXO on HN
Recent stable release, reliable
From 1 comment
Posting this here because it has been mentioned in some of the recent mutt-related stories, and I just made a new release. The recent release doesn't have too many changes,…
stevekemp on HN
Objections
Errors reported by a visitor; maker says CI passes
From 2 comments
Wow so many errors. I'm guessing this is still early in it's development?
xupybd on HNThe domain was registered back in 2013, so it has been around a while. The CI shows it working just fine: https://travis-ci.org/lumail/lumail If you're seeing errors please do…
stevekemp on HN
Requests
Bug reports for any errors seen
From 1 comment
The domain was registered back in 2013, so it has been around a while. The CI shows it working just fine: https://travis-ci.org/lumail/lumail If you're seeing errors please do…
stevekemp on HN
Questions
Why choose it over Neomutt
From 1 comment
Why should I choose your project instead of Neomutt?
dvfjsdhgfv on HN
How scripts are used in practice
From 1 comment
How are scripts used in this thing? I'm just curious. Do you use scripts to set auto-responders? Manual spam filtering? What?
fiatjaf on HN
Alternatives named
Neomutt
From 1 comment
Why should I choose your project instead of Neomutt?
dvfjsdhgfv on HN
mutt
From 2 comments
Posting this here because it has been mentioned in some of the recent mutt-related stories, and I just made a new release. The recent release doesn't have too many changes,…
stevekemp on HNThe posts didn't convince me to switch, they just reminded me it existed. I'm using mutt specifically because I want far less functionality in my email client, probably not for…
jasonkostempski on HN
Emacs
From 1 comment
> With the exception of GNU Emacs none of the console clients I examined had any built in support for scripting with a real language. "mh"[0] might be interesting to some. [0]…
bch on HN
notmuch
From 1 comment
Since we are on the topics of email clients. I just started migrating out of the gmail web client, and I think this is a very interesting project. However, I just started using…
aijony on HN
Thunderbird
From 1 comment
Hmm... If you remember which submissions, I'd be interested in knowing what they are. I need to find something other than Thunderbird.
WalterGR on HN