For comparison purposes, I was rewriting the silly little e-mail digest program in Haskell, using Python libraries for the IMAP interface (it’s available on Github). It’s hard to beat Python’s amazing collection of libraries. Cabal / hackage isn’t bad, but it doesn’t yet approach Python’s “batteries included” philosophy and ease of use. Anyway, I couldn’t [...]

There should be a word for “effort undertaken even though you’re sure, somewhere, somebody has written something for it already, or maybe it’s already a Linux command.” I get the distinct feeling that this utility already exists, but I googled to no avail. I have a bunch of e-mail boxes, some incredibly infrequently used, but [...]