Mblaze – Unix utilities to deal with Maildir

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 tiny 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...