Mblaze Alternatives

mblaze reviews and mentions

• Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2024

  Looks like mblaze but with extra steps

  https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze

• Tmpmail: Temporary email right from your terminal written in POSIX sh
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Aug 2024

  After trying a few different CLI mail clients---mutt/neomutt, s-nail, etc.---I've come to love the approach of mblaze[0], _i.e._ just a collection of commands to interact with maildirs, which can be separately managed by OfflineIMAP or whatever.

  I'm curious how mblaze+offlineimap compares to other similar setups: nmh[1], fdm[2], and getmail.

  [0]:https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze

  [1]:https://www.nongnu.org/nmh/

  [2]:https://github.com/nicm/fdm

• _M2dir: Treating mails as files without going crazy
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2024

  > 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.

• Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
  57 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2024
• Mblaze – Unix utilities to deal with Maildir
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Dec 2023

  I'm so close to being a full-time mblaze user, it is truly excellent. There is something so smart about being able to use your standard shell tooling and interaction facilities to interact with mail. It is like everything that was a good idea with mh¹/nmh decades ago, just better all round and with a nicer message format.

  Even if you don't like the idea of using command line tools as your MUA, you can easily make mblaze interactive with common tooling. For example, you could use mlist via fzf along with its --preview window as pretty awesome interactive client. Everything works as you'd expect, and you have all the power of every single tool you use to mangle that mail at any point.

  I just seem to fall back in to mutt too easily in the end, I can't get over the final hump. I've even implemented a chunk of mimicry bindings so that I shouldn't even notice, but mutt pulls me back in for "that one minor feature" every now and then. I've been doing this dance for at least a few years at this point², but I think it may be longer.

  ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System

  ² https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/commits?author=JNRo...

• Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
  149 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2023

  I combined mblaze (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze), fzf and standard UNIX tools to build my own CLI MUA in under 300 lines, most of which is shell scripts.

  When UNIX is your platform you don't need a complex UI framework with thousands or millions of lines of codes, and you get to reuse knowledge you've already built elsewhere.

  I need to write more about it

• Burgr – Books in Your Terminal
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2023

  If you like Himalaya, you'll probably like mblaze as well (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze)

  I also find fzf to be very good for building simple UIs. In fact I saw ways to do 80% of burgr with a few lines of fzf; composable tools really are the bee's knees

• Ask HN: What services/apps are you self-hosting?
  15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2022
• Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Sep 2022

  You're probably looking for notmuch, which integrates very well with other tools. There's also mblaze (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze) that might be of interest.

• Suckless Modular E-mail Tools?
  1 project | /r/suckless | 21 Feb 2022

  For parsing mails in the shell mblaze can be nice sometimes: https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze

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