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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by lillesvin on Saturday May 14, 2016 @05:25AM (#11695273)
> E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war.

Keep fighting the good fight. I still use Mutt and haven't gotten around to finding a way to handle Office365 meeting invites and such. I'm also the only one in the company that connects to Slack via an IRC client (irssi).

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by copperx on Saturday May 14, 2016 @11:45AM (#11696591)
Programmers ought to get together and create CLI versions of clients of popular protocols (Exchange, for one).
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by ams6110 on Saturday May 14, 2016 @02:05PM (#11697314)
I manage my email in emacs, though it's delivered to the Exchange server at work. I deliver it to a local maildir with fetchmail, and use notmuch to index it. Searching is better and faster than GMail IMO.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by lillesvin on Saturday May 14, 2016 @04:00PM (#11697799)
There's actually a surprising number of CLI implementations of popular protocols out there. I recently started using Hangups (https://github.com/tdryer/hangups) for Hangouts. And there's one for Play Music too although I can't recall its name at the moment.

Only thing I'm really, really missing now is a CLI for KeePass, but I'm considering writing one myself in Go, since I've been looking for something to do for practice in Go anyway.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by jeauxlb on Sunday May 15, 2016 @08:49PM (#11703566)
Check out Davmail (http://davmail.sourceforge.net/). I use this with offlineimap to run mutt with an Exchange installation; apart from calendar invitations, it works quite well.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by Karunamon on Saturday May 14, 2016 @02:00PM (#11697292)
Davmail can get you most of the way there for Exchange. Definitely a product I would buy if it were commercialized.
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