Postsack

Provides a high level visual overview of swaths of email

Performance

It currently parses 632383 emails in ~160 seconds, so roughly 4.000 emails per second. This excludes (for now) attachments. Update: It currently parses 632115 emails in ~56 seconds, so roughly 11.000 emails per second. This excludes (for now) attachments.

Open Issues

rename repository to postsack
add support for message filters (read etc), the UI is already there, the filters are not applied yet
- the filters for tags should allow selecting from the existing tags?
mbox is multiple files, e.g. inbox.mbox, sent.mbox. support this
support mbox
support apple mail
try re-opening a database...
save config into sqlite
store last opened sqlite file
check if we get any values for the to_sender to_domain fields etc
update to egui 15
add more tests
build static linux binary via docker
try to build a static windows binary

Linux Issues

broken background color
can't switch import format
mbox support for selecting a folder of mbox files (inbox etc)
weird sizing behaviour on startup
background color in startup screen is transparent
current tests fail under linux

Future Options

Add additional UI based on Druid, Iced or Native Cocoa
maybe add blocking versions of the calls, too (in model)
abstract over Fields and backend to have a generic way to display groupable information
apply the window changes (no status etc) on startup, not just when loading main
split up into multiple crates
action when clicking an email?
support light theme
allow diving into splits/segments until there're no gropu bys anymore, but the last split can be opened full (to see the mails)
remove unneeded dependencies and features
add support for generating mail deletion rules based on the visible mails
support more mail formats:
- outlook
- notmuch
- maildir

Development

Generate a macOS bundle via Cargo Bundle:

cargo bundle --bin gui

Linux Dependencies

In order to build (and or run) on Linux, the following dependencies are needed:

Fedora

# Development
sudo dnf install @development-tools glib cairo-devel pango-devel gdk-pixbux2-devel atk-devel gtk3 gtk3-devel libsqlite3x-devel

Ubuntu (currently untested)

# Development
sudo apt-get install libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libspeechd-dev libxkbcommon-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev

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