[ISSUE] [Discussion] How to you integrate mblaze in your email stack ?

[ISSUE] [Discussion] How to you integrate mblaze in your email stack ?

[sucrecacao]

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New issue by sucrecacao on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/184

Description:
Hello,

I'm currently migrating from classic web based email client to a more unix way to manage my email. 

I'm so happy I found mblaze :heart: , since I had hard time finding a "suckless" set of email tools where each does one thing and to it well.  I don't want to use neomutt or aerc as I find those bloated and hard to hack. 

But I still have trouble putting all the piece of the puzzle together.. So I was wondering if you those tool in your daily email workflow, what is your stack and how do you use it ? ( Link to script or dot-files highly appreciated :p )

In advances, thanks :)

Re: [Discussion] How to you integrate mblaze in your email stack ?

[Anachron]

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New comment by Anachron on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/184#issuecomment-820924647

Comment:
Hey @sucrecacao this might be a bit late, but I compose messages with `mcom` and then send them via `msmtp`. 
I use a few wrapper scripts to change my `mblaze` & `msmtp` default account. 

mfrom
```
test "$#" -eq 0 && awk -F ':' '$1 == "Local-Mailbox" {print $2}' ~/.mblaze/profile | xargs && exit
acc=$(sed -n "/^account[ ]*${1}$/,/^$/p" ~/.msmtprc | awk '$1 == "from" {print $2}')
if test -n "${acc}"; then
  sed -i "s|^Local-Mailbox.*|Local-Mailbox: ${acc}|" ~/.mblaze/profile
  sed -i "s|^Outbox.*|Outbox: ${HOME}/usr/mls/${1}/OUTBOX|" ~/.mblaze/profile
  ! test -e ~/.mblaze/signature || rm ~/.mblaze/signature
  ! test -f "${HOME}/usr/mls/${1}/signature" || ln -s "${HOME}/usr/mls/${1}/signature" ~/.mblaze/signature
  sed -i "s|account default.*|account default: ${1}|" ~/.msmtprc
  printf 'Switched to "%s"\n' "${acc}"
fi
```

Re: [Discussion] How to you integrate mblaze in your email stack ?

[sucrecacao]

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New comment by sucrecacao on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/184#issuecomment-823216822

Comment:
Thanks @Anachron !

How is your workflow to browse your email ?
Do you download them and navigate around with a file manager like nnn?

Re: [Discussion] How to you integrate mblaze in your email stack ?

[Anachron]

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New comment by Anachron on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/184#issuecomment-823223134

Comment:
Hello @sucrecacao,

I download them via `mbsync` and browse through them via `mbrowse`, a self-written script which uses `fzf` to display the header and content part of a mail, internally it uses `mscan` (like `mless`) to display a human-friendly mail-list.

It's a little bugged but I do plan on updating and making it public eventually.

Re: [Discussion] How to you integrate mblaze in your email stack ?

[Anachron]

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New comment by Anachron on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/184#issuecomment-823223134

Comment:
Hello @sucrecacao,

I download them via `mbsync` and browse through them via `mbrowse`, a self-written script which uses `fzf` to display the header and content part of a mail, internally it uses `mscan` (like `mless`) to display a human-friendly mail-list.

It's a little bugged but I do plan on updating and making it public eventually.

Edit: The advantage of `mbrowse` is that I can easily `reply`, `extract attachments` and `trash` mails using `fzf`. 

Re: [Discussion] How to you integrate mblaze in your email stack ?

[Anachron]

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New comment by Anachron on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/184#issuecomment-823223134

Comment:
Hello @sucrecacao,

I download them via `mbsync` and browse through them via `mbrowse`, a self-written script which uses `fzf` to display the header and content part of a mail, internally it uses `mscan` (like `mless`) to display a human-friendly mail-list.

It's a little bugged but I do plan on updating and making it public eventually.

Edit: The advantage of `mbrowse` is that I can easily `reply`, `extract attachments` and `trash` mails. I simply need to select one (or multiple) mails and `confirm`, then select the action and it's done. 

Re: [Discussion] How to you integrate mblaze in your email stack ?

[Vouivre]

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New comment by Vouivre on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/184#issuecomment-962108840

Comment:
Hello @Anachron,

I'm also trying to find a good workflow with `mblaze`. Could you share your script `mbrowse`. Is it 
available somewhere ? 

Re: [Discussion] How to you integrate mblaze in your email stack ?

[Anachron]

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New comment by Anachron on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/184#issuecomment-962176257

Comment:
Not yet publicy available, it requires a few scripts from myself so that it knows where to read mails from.

I'll see if I can publish them somewhere for others to learn from.

It's basically a fzf wrapper which invokes mcom, mrep and alike.

Re: [Discussion] How to you integrate mblaze in your email stack ?

[Anachron]

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New comment by Anachron on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/184#issuecomment-962176257

Comment:
Not yet publicy available, it requires a few scripts from myself so that it knows where to read mails from.

I'll see if I can publish them somewhere for others to learn from.

Re: [Discussion] How to you integrate mblaze in your email stack ?

[Vouivre]

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New comment by Vouivre on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/184#issuecomment-962198553

Comment:
> I'll see if I can publish them somewhere for others to learn from.

It would be nice! I slowly understand how it works, but perhaps sometimes I make everything complicated and an easy solution exists. I discovered for example `mless` and saw that it's possible to use colors. 

So excepted the issues for `mblaze`, I only know those ressources:

https://voidlinux.org/news/2017/12/advent-mblaze.html
https://voidlinux.org/news/2017/12/advent-mblaze-part-2.html

It's a beginning, but at some point, some scripts are needed. 

For the moment I also tend to use `fzf` in my scripts. 

I will also publish my scripts if I get something functional. 

Re: [Discussion] How to you integrate mblaze in your email stack ?

[Shugyousha]

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New comment by Shugyousha on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/184#issuecomment-1276215248

Comment:
I have written up some info about my setup here: https://sillymon.ch/posts/mmh-blaze-mail-setup.html

My usual email workflow looks like this.

```
$ mall #put all new emails into my selection
$ mless # start interactive pager to go through all my new mails one by one
$ mread # mark all the mails as read
```
Note that I have added a binding to delete the current email on `D` for the `mless` script. 

Re: [Discussion] How to you integrate mblaze in your email stack ?

[Shugyousha]

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New comment by Shugyousha on mblaze repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze/issues/184#issuecomment-1276215248

Comment:
I have written up some info about my setup here: https://sillymon.ch/posts/mmh-blaze-mail-setup.html

My usual email workflow looks like this.

```
$ mall # put all new emails into my selection
$ mless # start interactive pager to go through all my new mails one by one
$ mread # mark all the mails as read
```
Note that I have added a binding to delete the current email on `D` for the `mless` script.