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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thunderbird with enigmail.

Also, protonmail, but that's done via browser.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 8:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ant P. wrote:
[...] scrolling through messages without accidentally being thrown into the next one is hard, [...]

Ant P. ... you want 'set pager_stop'

~/.muttrc:
### pager_stop
### Type: boolean
### Default: unset
### When set, the internal-pager will not move to the next message when you
### are at the end of a message and invoke the next-page function.
set pager_stop

Ant P. wrote:
[...] and context-switching between my local and imap account is a bit of a hassle.

Not quite sure of the issue but if you set 'mailboxes' then 'c' (change-folder) and '?' will provide a menu to select 'mailboxes'. You might also want a 'folder-hook' and 'set folder=' and so adjust '+' (that's the 'root' of the 'mailbox'). For multiple mailboxes/accounts then I'd suggest you configure 'folder-hook' and 'send-hook' that switches the root on entering the mailbox, eg:

~/.muttrc:
set spoolfile=+foo/INBOX
set hostname="foo.org"
mailboxes = +foo/INBOX +ba/INBOX

send-hook "(~t @)" 'set record="+Sent"'
send-hook "(~f @foo.org)" 'my_hdr From: Ant P. <antp@foo.org> ; \
                           my_hdr Reply-To: Ant P. <antp@foo.org> ; \
                           unmy_hdr Mail-Followup-To:'
send-hook "(~f @ba.org)"   'my_hdr From: Ant P. <antp@ba.org> ; \
                           my_hdr Reply-To: Ant P. <antp@ba.org> ; \
                           unmy_hdr Mail-Followup-To:'

folder-hook . "set sort=threads"
folder-hook Drafts "set sort=date-sent"
folder-hook Sent 'set sort=date-sent simple_search="~t %s | ~s %s"'

folder-hook ~/mail/foo/INBOX 'set folder="~/mail/foo"'                       
folder-hook ~/mail/ba/INBOX 'set folder="~/mail/ba"'
folder-hook . 'set postponed="+Drafts"'

The path can be a remote/IMAP mailbox URI

Ant P. wrote:
I've already had to weed out some other bad defaults just to be able to copy and paste long URLs.

hmmm ... again, not exactly sure the issue you're describing but that sounds as though its an issue with VISUAL, perhaps you have textwidth= set to <80 and so such urls are getting wrapped?

Ant P. wrote:
It's a mixed bag, but then again no other email program I've used has stood out as polished software, so I might as well give it a chance.

I wouldn't use anything else, it just takes time to grok configuration, and how best to approach any given setup.

best ... khay
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2023 3:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No one uses more simple command line clients like nmh, s-nail etc?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2023 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Strictly speaking i'm using 3 mail clients ...
1) getmail to retrieve emails from some imap mailboxes and inject them into my own mailserver
2) RoundCube as a webmail client for my own mailserver
3) Thunderbird on my desktop connected to my own mailserver
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 03, 2023 9:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sylpheed. And now I have to muddle it into the respository because emerge screams:
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emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "sylpheed".
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 03, 2023 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Re: Sylpheed, couldn't you just use claws instead? I don't remember now why I switched, they were basically interchangeable as far as I recall.

It's funny this ancient thread should pop up again right now, I was thinking of it this week as I have been migrating to a new PC and reached the stage of sorting out an email client. Despite what I wrote about Mutt here in 2017, I actually started using it for my main email account not long after (alongside claws for a pile of less important accounts.)

Being without mutt on my main PC for a week or two has been remarkably frustrating - while claws is very efficient as far as GUI based mail clients go, I had been finding it much less quick and easy to use compared to the TUI environment of Mutt.

I'm about half way through getting Mutt set up again now - previously I was using isync to maintain a local copy of my email, then indexing it with notmuch and viewing with mutt; this worked pretty well overall although notmuch was kind of an afterthought and I wasn't get the best from it. Also, I didn't really like just polling the mail server for messages, it could take a while for things to show up and was very inefficient.

Given this particular account is hosted on gmail servers with their slightly weird nearly-IMAP, I decided to do things differently on this PC and am now using

  • lieer - to synchronise my mail using the gmail API instead of IMAP, using labels rather than IMAP folders
  • notmuch - as the main message database, directly
  • goimapnotify - watch the server using IMAP IDLE and trigger lieer to sync as soon as mail arrives
  • neomutt to read and send mail; this has better built-in support for using the notmuch database as the message store directly


When HungGarTiger said earlier in this thread that mutt is extremely customisable, that was an understatement... basically almost everything to do with listing, viewing or sending email messages can be customised to your own particular requirements. For example, to view my mail "folders" list (which being gmail, aren't really folders but labels/tags) the virtual-mailboxes line in the config file calls a simple script which gets the current list of suitable labels via lieer. Obviously this isn't something everyone will want to do, but the point is that (neo)mutt is designed to be usable in ways that the original authors probably never imagined - the only downside is that it takes a real investment to get comfortable with it (much like Gentoo itself I suppose.)
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 06, 2023 3:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use Thunderbird from mail-client/thunderbird-bin. I don't use mutt much, but I have it. I miss the old text based ELM.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My own setup: getmail+msmtp+mu4e.
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