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I, for one, want a pure command line based email client, not just a TUI client, that is well integrated with bash/zsh in an everyday use, e.g.

    $ inbox
    (shows the first 10 emails in the inbox)
    $ search from:john
    (shows emails from john with numbers)
    $ reply 4
    (opens up vi to edit a reply to the email #4)
    ...
I've been dreaming a client like this for decades, and actually started developing it, but the development is stagnating for now (due to the spec changes and other priorities).


You might also like neatmail:

https://github.com/aligrudi/neatmail

http://litcave.rudi.ir

Or mother (and its, uh, "mother", nedmail) if you're a Plan9 person:

http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/mother/

http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/nedmail


Haiku's mail system may be of interest to you -- the default UI is of course a GUI, but as the mails are stored as individual files, and their headers in extended attributes, you can use "query mail:from=john", etc. to filter mails, "mail" to send them, etc.


Check out notmuch:

https://notmuchmail.org/


You might find mblaze (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze) interesting; it's not too far off from what you describe.


did you look at nmh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System


Actually, I was a big fan of MH. But it's quite old and full of gotchas. It doesn't have decent search functions either. Also I'd like to have something written in a modern scripting language (Python, JS, etc), as I don't want to worry about buffer overflow.


I loved your take, haven’t thought of it that way, but it would be great. I hope you are able to go back to it.


Isn’t this mh?


yep


mail, pipes and grep?




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