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0 pointsdredmorbius13y ago0 comments

Good luck with that.

SAAS means you're vulnerable to vendor change with every pageload.

Though there are getting to be tools which allow you to reverse-engineer sites and design them how you want, but this is subject to a lot of churn keeping up with the SAAS vendor.

Still lovin' my mutt.

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pyre13y ago

True, but it would be nice to augment Mutt with things like tags and conversations[1] without having convoluted setups involving hacks with external scripts.

Another example, it would be really cool to be able to edit email as Markdown/Textile/reStructuredText and have it converted to a text+html (multipart/alternative) email, but currently there is no way to do that with Mutt without using some sort of sendmail wrapper that does this.

[1] I realize that Gmail's threading isn't 'true' threading, but I'm talking about pulling in the entire thread even if it's not part of the current email folder.

petercooper13y ago

Not pointing this out for any reason other than it might useful for some: http://sup.rubyforge.org/

More generally, though, I last used mutt in the late 90s so I have no clue but.. it doesn't allow for a vim-style of extension by third party addons?

xiaomai13y ago

I used sup for many years (and contributed some very minor patches). sup is no longer maintained and it's difficult to get running with ruby 1.9. Some good people that weren't happy with sup created notmuch (http://notmuchmail.org/) with similar goals. There is a mutt fork that uses morning called mutt-kz (https://github.com/karelzak/mutt-kz/wiki).

I'm not as satisfied with mutt-kz as I was with sup, but it's probably even better if you have invested a lot of time configuring mutt just so.

skeletonjelly13y ago

On the flipside, SAAS means you can augment the interface using browser plugins (user scripts, CSS, etc)!

ohhnoodont13y ago

That's a characteristic of applications that run in a web browser and has nothing to do with SAAS architecture.

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