Introduction
Mail and the digital ecosystem
Platformization and Mail
Contours of this presentation
Anatomy of monolithic MUAs
Existing Elisp mail libraries and modes
Concept of a split-MUA
Emacs and the culture of DIY split-MUAs
A glimpse of the bigger picture
The full ByStar story
ByStar DE context, assets, and terminology
MARMEE parts list
Blee-Gnus parts list
Deep integration of BISOS-MARMEE and Blee-Gnus
qmail and bystar-qmail
MARMEE: common-agent for split-MUA implementations
Obtaining, installing, and configuring MARMEE
Installing MARMEE
Emacs inside of ByStar
Emacs common-agent models and interfaces
Evolution of Gnus with MARMEE
X-Message-SMTP-Method: qmail
X-Message-Send-Method
Shared common-agents configuration and secrets management
Evolution of message-mode into message-polymode
Two vertical-slice mail use cases