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Author: Jake Bauer <jbauer@paritybit.ca>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 01:38:07 -0500
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+# smc
+
+The simple mail client
+
+This project is a fork of mail(1) from OpenBSD.
+
+## Reasoning
+
+Most email clients suck. I don't know why email in particular has been plagued
+with such terrible MUA implementations, but the current landscape is full of
+either bloated programs with far too much going on (Thunderbird, Kmail), or
+programs that are unnecessarily complicated and require a lot of configuration
+(mutt, alpine).
+
+I want an email client with the following features:
+
+* Limited configuration required
+* Sane configuration out of the box
+* CLI interface to make browsing and reading emails painless and straightforward
+* Features one needs to deal with the current landscape of email (many messages,
+ html email, attachments)
+
+## Roadmap
+
+Here are the modifications I want to make to mail(1):
+
+* Maildir support (intended to be used with a program like mbsync)
+* HTML email support by way of passing to an external program for rendering
+ (e.g. lynx, w3m)
+* Reverse display of headers so the default is to display a limited set of
+ important headers (From:, To:, Subject:, Date:, Content-Type:)
+* View email using a pager by default
+* Parse out attachments and allow easy saving
+* Attach files to an email when composing
