mu4e

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with mu4e, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Took hours of reading blog posts just to configure email download2025-12-10
Indexing with mu blocks Emacs UI and can't run while reading mail2018-10-05
Indexing blocks Emacs and slows the UI, so user must reindex manually2018-10-05
Interface feels slightly slow and awkward to use2017-09-30
Efficiency depends on memorising hotkeys and a query-based workflow, requiring lots of tool fighting2016-08-08