Notmuch

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2013–2022), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Notmuch, 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 6 complaints

Syncing mail database across computers and phone is brittle and gets out of sync2022-06-10
Setup requires bouncing between instructions for several different tools2017-11-22
Shows unrelated old threads for new replies, forcing constant switching between tree and list modes2017-10-02
Must go through threaded view to tag one message2017-10-02
Setup was painful, needing scripts to sync tags with IMAP folders2017-06-16
Search is so slow the user abandoned the setup2013-06-30