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[PATCH] Add Bower (notmuch curses email client)

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From: jgart <jgart <at> dismail.de>
To: Guix Patches <guix-patches <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Add bower (it's not what you're thinking)
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 19:08:36 -0400

Hi Guixers!

Here's bower, a notmuch client written in mercury.

This thing is awesome! It's my main email client.

I use it paired with offlineimap3, msmtp, and vis (composing emails).

One of the unique things about bower is that:

> Bower is designed such that it can be run on the local machine but call
> out to notmuch on a remote machine (that holds your mail) via ssh. The
> advantage is that you can start helper programs on the local machine
> (e.g. a web browser or image viewer), and add or save attachments on
> the local filesystem, even if your mail archive is stored on a different
> machine.

Tests are enabled and passing.

If anyone can't wait for this bower to get reviewed and merged then it is also
available now from GuixRUS channel:

https://git.sr.ht/~whereiseveryone/guixrus/tree/master/item/guixrus/packages/bower.scm

Bower's packaged for alpine linux, gentoo, aur and nix. I currently maintain
the nix package also:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/notmuch-bower/default.nix#L34

all best,

jgart

3B1D 7F19 E36B B60C 0F5B 2CA9 A52A A2B4 77B6 DD35

https://github.com/wangp/bower

My bower config: 

https://git.sr.ht/~jgart/dotfiles/tree/master/item/private_dot_config/bower/bower.conf

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