_M2dir: Treating mails as files without going crazy

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  • mblaze

    Unix utilities to deal with Maildir

  • > Search is a very different story, you wouldn't want to have to do a full directory scan for text based search. So some level of indexing would be useful for a client mail service.

    While notmuch and mu exist, I myself use the mblaze suite (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze) and it's more than enough for me. As a totally unscientific benchmark, it takes 300 ms to find 7 mails out of 24k.

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  • pharo

    Pharo is a dynamic reflective pure object-oriented language supporting live programming inspired by Smalltalk.

  • Pharo/SmallTalk seem to also explore the ideas akin to this. (https://pharo.org/)

    to be fair the current state of affairs is similar enough with file extensions + mime info if you squint hard enough and pretend that app and systems folders files don't exist but it's held with pinky promises.

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