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This is interesting.

After recently learning Mutt and falling in love with its macros and tag handling I was thinking about implementing a GTD flow based on a local email server and use mutt as the client.

This project might serve well for prototyping

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You might be interested in https://github.com/zedshaw/lamson It's super old (died when python 2 was still the king) but probably more suited for making programmatic mail applications

Difficult to search for, so I'll ask on the chance that you know: I see .vel files in that repository. Do you know anything about what language or format that is?

They look like configure files for a python build script:

https://github.com/zedshaw/vellum

https://pypi.org/project/vellum/ https://launchpad.net/vellum

There is an active lamson fork https://github.com/moggers87/salmon that retains the original GPL license and supports current Python 2.x and 3.x versions.

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