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A console-based mail-client with integrated Lua scripting support.
27 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 2 stories, 25 comments · first 2015-11-02 · latest 2020-09-07
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…but it would be a bit fiddly and annoying as the program was more designed as an email-client. https://github.com/lumail/lumail/ https://lumail.org/ Honestly I'd probably write something in perl/go/similar to just walk over a remote IMAP…
comment by stevekemp · 2020-09-07 · in Fennel – Lisp in Lua -
…with a real/complete scripting language. The result was very flexible and customizable for myself: https://github.com/lumail/lumail/ https://lumail.org/ Unfortunately after 10+ years of self-hosting my email on a virtual machine I've now…
comment by stevekemp · 2020-08-16 · in Mutt email client 25 years old -
…for years, but then wrote an alternative with integrated lua scripting: * https://lumail.org/ * https://github.com/lumail/lumail/ Since large parts of it are configured in Lua it suits my needs perfectly. Recently I've been considering a…
comment by stevekemp · 2019-09-27 · in Ask HN: Which email software do you use on Linux? -
…on how/where to reply so here you go! 1. What is your mail client? Lumail. Console based. lumail.org / github.com/lumail/lumail 2. Can you give me plain english instructions for composing plaintext emails by default? Lumail is a…
comment by stevekemp · 2019-07-25 · in Use plaintext email -
My own client: lumail, c++, gpl https://github.com/lumail/lumail
comment by stevekemp · 2019-07-24 · in Use plaintext email -
…was a client-core written in C++ with most of the UI setup and configuration handled via lua: https://github.com/lumail/lumail/
comment by stevekemp · 2019-07-08 · in Meli email client, pre-alpha release -
…programming language to configure your client you might enjoy my alternative: https://lumail.org/ https://github.com/lumail/lumail/
comment by stevekemp · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications? -
…for me, and even has IMAP support, but I suspect it is not so useful for you: https://lumail.org/ https://github.com/lumail/lumail/
comment by stevekemp · 2017-11-26 · in Ask HN: Best Email client for Linux? -
…also where I did shameful self-promotion of my own console-based mail client with lua scripting: https://github.com/lumail/lumail
comment by stevekemp · 2017-06-16 · in Mutt fork with Lua scripting, tagging and unified inbox -
…bit too constrained, although it has a lot of features and is very very flexible in its own right: https://github.com/lumail/lumail
comment by stevekemp · 2017-06-16 · in Switching to the Mutt Email Client -
…the minor omissions, and is well-paired with my console-based mail-client - again scripted by lua: https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/
comment by stevekemp · 2017-04-06 · in Build Your Own Text Editor -
…the number of bytes, rather than the length of the rendered string. Something I had to work around: https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/issues/277
comment by stevekemp · 2017-03-04 · in A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode -
In that case, my "competitor", is another console-based client, scripted via Lua: https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/
comment by stevekemp · 2016-09-24 · in Using Gmail with Mutt -
If you like console-based mail-clients you might want to checkout my own project: https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/ This is directly inspired by mutt, but uses a real scripting language (lua) for most of the operations. It allows you bind…
comment by stevekemp · 2016-08-20 · in Mutt 1.7.0 released -
Me too. Mine has Lua-based scripting. https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/
comment by stevekemp · 2016-07-11 · in Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun -
…That said I did write a console-based mail-client with lua support: https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/
comment by stevekemp · 2016-07-06 · in Luakit: Fast, small, WebKit-based browser framework extensible by Lua -
It can do - there is a trivial eval(read_input()) facility baked in. https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/
comment by stevekemp · 2016-03-16 · in Ditching tmux -
…for managing DNS-data via git-repositories - https://dns-api.com/ A console based mail-client - https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/ A reworking of the Debian Administration website to make it better scale, and experiment more with…
comment by stevekemp · 2016-03-10 · in Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL -
…that is 100% scriptable via Lua, and now I can't imagine using anything else: https://lumail.org/ https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/
comment by stevekemp · 2016-02-29 · in Ask HN: Favorite Email Client? -
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Show HN: The console-based, lua-scriptable, mail-client now supports IMAPstory by stevekemp · 2016-01-19 · 0 comments
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…with Lua scripting. (Think "mutt"). The core of the project is C++, along with lots of Lua. https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/
comment by stevekemp · 2016-01-12 · in Ask HN: Who still develops in C++ -
…but I found that the "scripting" support wasn't there. So using mutt as my model I came up with https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/ A console client with _real_ scripting, in Lua. Sadly it is Maildir-only, because thats how I always used…
comment by stevekemp · 2015-12-15 · in Email made me miserable, so I decided to build my own email app from scratch -
Not yet, possibly not soon: https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/issues/14
comment by stevekemp · 2015-11-09 · in Show HN: A console-based email client with fully integrated Lua scripting -
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Show HN: A console-based email client with fully integrated Lua scriptingstory by stevekemp · 2015-11-08 · 2 comments
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…of the application makes it more flexible, more customizable, and more interesting to develop for: https://github.com/lumail/lumail2 Still early work - since you can neither compose a new email, or reply to existing ones, but the core is…
comment by stevekemp · 2015-11-02 · in What is your current side project?