Local mail agent suggestions (gmail -> local postgres -> {local IMAP+SMTP} <-> mutt)?

Jonathan Gold jgold.devlists at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 23:42:05 UTC 2019


Hi Ben -- Thanks. I did see it a few days ago (it is well indexed on
Google!), but while it would provide good search, it leaves most of the
other requirements off the list.

Probably I should have also stated one of the other requirements, which
is that I'm looking for a single tool which can provide both the local
networking daemons as well as the gmail sync, to reduce my configuration
and management footprint. The only external software I'd like in
addition are the MUA and postgres.

jonathan

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 03:03:25PM -0500, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 17:26:31 -0800, Jonathan Gold wrote:
> > I currently use the mbox format, fetchmail, procmail, and msmtp, but it
> > is a bit unwieldy and doesn't give me the SQL search interface I'd like.
> 
> It isn't postgres, but have you looked at notmuch? It has mail-oriented
> search tools built-in for outside-of-mutt searching. Example output
> here:
> 
>     % notmuch search mutt-dev
>     thread:0000000000013927   2015-02-25 [1/1] Mutt; [Mutt] #3740: multi-byte characters not handled in query window (inbox)
>     thread:00000000000138f4   2015-01-22 [5/5] Ben Boeckel, David Champion, Vincent Lefevre; mutt: Fix the hcache type punning warning. (inbox)
>     thread:000000000001387d   2014-08-23 [1/1] Mutt; [Mutt] #3699: Enable %a for pgp_encrypt_only_command (inbox)
>     thread:000000000001312a   2014-06-22 [2/2] Mutt; [Mutt] #3695: OpenPGP: use fingerprint instead of key ID (inbox)
>     thread:0000000000013129   2014-06-22 [1/1] Mutt; [Mutt] #3175: mutt should display keyid for which it wants the password (inbox)
>     thread:0000000000013116   2014-05-25 [4/4] Mutt; [Mutt] #3665: Encrypting postponed messages (flagged inbox)
>     thread:00000000000130fb   2014-05-07 [1/1] Mutt; [Mutt] #3687: Threads expand when other IMAP clients access IMAP folder (inbox)
> 
> https://notmuchmail.org/
> 
> --Ben


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