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

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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 HN
    • I 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 HN
    • 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

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
  • 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
  • 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 HN
    • The 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

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