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Comment by skullone

10 hours ago

I don't know about "only doing trivial things". I've built a fully threaded webmail replacement for Gmail using imap, indexes mail to postgres, local Django webapp renders everything in a Gmail/Outlook style threaded view with text/html bodies and attachments and a better local search than gmail, and runs all locally. Started as a "could I?" and ended up exceeding all my expectations

That would be considered a trivial thing, why wouldn't it be? It's just basic crud you're doing. Nothing unique and that hasn't been written about tens of thousands of times across millions of books/blogs/comments before.