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Announcing the Skylab Misfin Client

Over the past week and a half I've been simultaneously learning Go and writing a new Misfin client with a gemini frontend.

Skylab Homepage

Source code

Issue tracker

Skylab is named after the first space station launched and operated by NASA, which was one of the space programs MSFN was built to support.

Skylab has most of the features which you might expect:

Keeps trag of read/unread, archived mail, trashed mail, etc
Allows you to draft and send mail from any Gemini client
Lets you reply to mail by autopopulating the recipient and subject line
Has a gemsub feed of new messages
Supports multi-user setups and multiple client certificates per user

Currently, a few of Skylab's failings are:

Only supports the gembox fetch method for getting new messages from the server. This is to my knowledge supported only by clseibold's misfin-server: https://gitlab.com/clseibold/misfin-server
CGI uses environment variables from GmCapsule and takes source code modification to work with other gemini servers
Does not provide search and filter methods for mail
Harder to set up than it should be
Very little testing has been done so far

Notably, Skylab does not require a reverse proxy to run alongside another capsule. Everything is CGI and all stored information is written to disk.

Setup guide

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🐐 satch

Feb 03 · 7 weeks ago · 👍 skyjake, mozz, flipperzero, lykso, gemalaya, jmjl, johano, skf, chluehr, Eulenspiegel, ed, byzoni · 🎉 1

4 Comments ↓

🍀 gritty · Feb 05 at 12:23:

I want to try this out

🍀 gritty · Feb 06 at 00:55:

with clseibold probably gone from Gemini for good, would it be better to rely on a different server that could be updated in the future? just a thought.

🐐 satch [OP] · Feb 06 at 02:27:

clseibold is still around! but skylab now also works with cipres's server

🍀 gritty · Feb 06 at 02:47:

@satch, oh I didn't realize, since their capsule wasn't working not long ago. good to hear