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As I'm a emacs person, I tried once wanderlust[1] and got hooked up to it. Wanderlust is mail client which supports a wide variety of protocols. For me the bigg

by 0XAFFE 11y ago

As I'm a emacs person, I tried once wanderlust[1] and got hooked up to it. Wanderlust is mail client which supports a wide variety of protocols. For me the biggest advantages are the blazing fast IMAP support and the whole emacs thing (Keybindings, Help (C-h b for all keybindings in this buffer, priceless I have to say), the possibility to run it either in GUI or in a terminal, etc). Recently the devs uploaded it to melpa[2] which makes it even more easy to get started. I would definitly recommend it, to people who are already using emacs, its such a joy! [1] https://github.com/wanderlust/wanderlust https://github.com/wanderlust/wanderlust [2] http://melpa.org/#/wanderlust http://melpa.org/#/wanderlust

rekado 11y ago
Another Emacs person here. I'm using offlineimap+msmtp together with mu4e. I prefer not to do IMAP sync or mail delivery in Emacs itself.
- p4bl0 11y ago
  I do the same, except I use emacs build-in SMTP (smtpmail) directly. I'm quite happy with it :). What is the advantage of msmtp?
- nextos 11y ago
  Have you tried isync? I was using offlineimap before, but found it buggy and inefficient.
  - darkr 11y ago
    Currently using isync for those exact reasons. Only issue that I have with it is that it doesn't support nested folders.
  - hiq 11y ago
    What are the bugs you are referring to? I have been using it for a few weeks for a couple of mail accounts without trouble so far. It could probably be faster though (customizing 'maxconnections' does help).
    - deong 11y ago
      It never reliably functioned as a daemon for me. It would just stop checking for messages randomly after an hour or two. And if you give up on it being a daemon, then it's horrifically slow because it's doing full syncs all the time. I ended up having a script running out of cron that would kill and restart the daemon process every 30 minutes so that I could get reasonably fast incrememntal updates but still have it continue to work properly. And then it started losing track of what the server looks like. If you delete a label on the Gmail side, then of course offlineimap wants to recreate it. For a little while, it was tolerable to stop offlineimap, delete all the local metadata for a folder, go delete the folder from Gmail, and then restart offlineimap, but eventually that stopped working too, and it was recreating deleted folders on the server that I never managed to find a reason for. isync just worked exactly how I wanted to after spending a bit of time setting it up, and it's been pretty solid since then.

by 0XAFFE 11y ago

rekado 11y ago

Another Emacs person here. I'm using offlineimap+msmtp together with mu4e. I prefer not to do IMAP sync or mail delivery in Emacs itself.

p4bl0 11y ago
I do the same, except I use emacs build-in SMTP (smtpmail) directly. I'm quite happy with it :). What is the advantage of msmtp?
nextos 11y ago
Have you tried isync? I was using offlineimap before, but found it buggy and inefficient.
- darkr 11y ago
  Currently using isync for those exact reasons. Only issue that I have with it is that it doesn't support nested folders.
- hiq 11y ago
  What are the bugs you are referring to? I have been using it for a few weeks for a couple of mail accounts without trouble so far. It could probably be faster though (customizing 'maxconnections' does help).
  - deong 11y ago
    It never reliably functioned as a daemon for me. It would just stop checking for messages randomly after an hour or two. And if you give up on it being a daemon, then it's horrifically slow because it's doing full syncs all the time. I ended up having a script running out of cron that would kill and restart the daemon process every 30 minutes so that I could get reasonably fast incrememntal updates but still have it continue to work properly. And then it started losing track of what the server looks like. If you delete a label on the Gmail side, then of course offlineimap wants to recreate it. For a little while, it was tolerable to stop offlineimap, delete all the local metadata for a folder, go delete the folder from Gmail, and then restart offlineimap, but eventually that stopped working too, and it was recreating deleted folders on the server that I never managed to find a reason for. isync just worked exactly how I wanted to after spending a bit of time setting it up, and it's been pretty solid since then.