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VM 9.0.0, a mail reader for Emacs

Last updated 2026-10-20 · benchmark measured 2026-10-20 — deterministic & reproducible

VM is a mail reader that runs under GNU Emacs, originally written by Kyle Jones.

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Legit.Show scored VM 9.0.0, a mail reader for Emacs 74/100 on 2026-10-20, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/gl-vm-9-0-0-a-mail-reader-for-emacs/2026-10-20

Is VM 9.0.0, a mail reader for Emacs production-ready?

Legit.Show scores VM 9.0.0, a mail reader for Emacs 74 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on VM 9.0.0, a mail reader for Emacs (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Accessibility; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 27/100
• Accessibility — 100/100
• Security — 45/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 100/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 70/100
• Standards — 76/100
• Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 280 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 0 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who built it

product account @gitlab

Who it's for

Emacs users · Email power users · System administrators · Open source developers

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from gitlab.com's own website on 2026-10-20.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-10-20.

Put together from public information, without VM 9.0.0, a mail reader for Emacs's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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