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Lagrange as email frontend for gemini rendered IMAP boxes, what you think about it?
2023-05-18 · 4 weeks ago · 👍 satch, emilis, drh3xx
I think Bubble shows that it's feasible to implement a server for that, from a UX point of view. The server would "just" need to interface with the email/IMAP backend and handle the mailboxes.
I would certainly be interested in running a server like that locally on my network to access my emails. It would be refreshing to read and write emails "natively" in Gemtext. 🙂
Although, such a server would require an HTML-to-Gemtext conversion for viewing HTML emails. There are a few existing tools/libraries out there for this.
Sending emails via such a Gemini server would also be possible, and probably much easier to implement, since you can typically just do `sendmail` calls with your SMTP provider.
So, webmail thats easy but secure to access thanks to the cert based identities. Some of the prettiness of html email but reduced risks as its converted to gemtext before render by the client. I like it. Be great if you could add support for misfin to the backend too.
this is exactly the idea that I had on Station a few weeks ago. I plan on working on it this summer, and having support for both misfin and email.
it’s possible the IMAP part be harder than I am prepared for, but I have several people I can ask for help with that if need be.
Well, if you had a gemini-to-IMAP gateway, you could use any gemini client, right? Including text-based ones if that's your thing.
2023-05-19 · 4 weeks ago
Yes, the idea to use Lagrange for all text oriented services is so tempting to me, also I still use a little bit ancient tech like Fidonet and interested to make gateway for the local Fidonet echo/netmail database at least for reading messages since actual input UI elements needs more features/upgrades (resize, custom size, maybe some buttons, shortcuts for markdown features).
2023-05-21 · 4 weeks ago