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Are there actually good clients for mailing lists? [Answered: No] (programming.dev)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by to c/programming@programming.dev
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Some people talk about mailing lists with a lot of reverence, but I have only ever found them to be extremely ugly and unreadable.

Are there any good clients out there that make them readable? For example a lemmy-like, threaded interface with interactivity? Or for PR/MRs an interface that shows the diffs with syntax highlighting, toggleable unified and side by side diff views, ability to comment within diffs and continue discussions within them (maybe even threaded)?

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

The best thing I have found is this software, mailman. Check out an example: https://lists.openstack.org/archives/list/openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org/thread/GTPTFUPXXBDMWNQZGZDLM2IIX4FSTT5Y/

It lets you view discussions as threads on a website, and then you when click reply, it gives you the option to reply using your email software. This is a really neat way to do it, although the UI definitely looks rough compared to lemmy. But it might be a better way to do email, where you literally just present it via a forum website but all "posts" and "comments" are handled by your email client.

Or mailman lets you sign in and reply via the software itself, but idk if they are actually using that.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I scrolled through the link but it can't find the threads. The person Jeremy is responding to somebody but I can't see who. Nothing seems to be indented to follow the discussion.

    I'm on mobile right now. Does that make a difference for mailman?

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