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Email with Notmuch Rust
An experimental email client based on notmuch, along with other utilities like afew and offlineimap/isync.
The UI is ported from Geary, and a lot of inspiration comes from Astroid and alot. I like how alot is all command driven. I also like how VSCode/Atom/Textmate work. So that's probably how I want this thing to work, too.
Status
You can read mails, and even that needs improvements.
Goals
- UI: although I'm an avid terminal user, I like mail to be displayed in a proper desktop client. I'm aiming for a nice and full-featured and command-driven UI. For now, the toolkit of choice is GTK. However; VsCode's extension model seems to work pretty well. A sort of vscode for mail would be pretty cool.
- Settings: should be stored in easily readable/editable config files, so you can centralize them in your dotfiles.
- Editor: While Astroid relies on an external editor for writing emails, I aim for a default embedded editor. I do like the option of using the editor of your liking, though. The embedded editor would be plaintext (not WYSIWYG) with rendering markdown or reStructuredText to html (like github/gitlab).
- Plug-ins/extensions. If everything stays in rust, WASM would be the way to go. If not, it would probably look like vscodes extension model.
- Core: Everything not UI related should end up centralized. Somewhat like Mailcore2.