saw the talk at fosdem yesterday. would be happier if they would have tried to be just a mail user agent instead of their vision of being everything at once.
Well but maybe hte unix philosophy of doing one thing really well really is dead
Please point me to a copy of this "Unix philosphy" you speak of.
You can't, because there isn't one.
If you were at the talk yesterday, like I was, and actually listened to what they said they explained why they chose to do things.
That was the actual point of the of the talk. Plus they want additional helps (fosdem being a developer conference).
They explained their use of own indexing system (was an experiment, is <1000 lines of codes, search <0.250ms, etc.); why they are thinking of including TOR (so you get a generated foo@<long-string>.onion address so you communicate with having to register with any service but still speak with people on gmail), why they are thinking of including an SMTP server (it means that you can directly get mail routed to you, via your .onion address; and your communications metadata is far harder to get to)
Brennan here from the team. Mailpile is just a user agent. The app talks to GnuPG for crytpo. We follow the unix philosophy as much as it makes sense, but for the overall experience of an MUA that is easily searchable + allows sending encrypted mail, but also offers a modern web app interface- there must be a certain size + scope of project :)
Mailpile does indexing so as to be able to do complex searching of one's mail index. We include a Python "web" server that renders our search engine's result in the web UI, however one can use Mailpile strictly via the CLI.
Well but maybe hte unix philosophy of doing one thing really well really is dead