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Proprietary tools just aren't worth the turnover for me. It's untenable to depend on developer tools that a company owns. I love free software, but in all hone

by codemac 11y ago

Proprietary tools just aren't worth the turnover for me. It's untenable to depend on developer tools that a company owns. I love free software, but in all honesty the reason I incorporate it is more selfish. My workstation is exclusively free software so I don't have to be abreast of business news to get my job done. I've basically settled on my emacs + notmuch + offlineimap solution not because I think it's better than all email clients -- but it's the one that if all parties involved quit, I could probably use it for another 10-ish years. For example - offlineimap right now still has this old bug where sometime it uses all my cpu (and a bunch of memory) in some sync case. Ok, I don't have time to debug this. I set limits and have it be killed when that state occurs. Annoying? Sure. Have to configure whole new mail client? Nope!

darkr 11y ago
I moved from offlineimap to mbsync (part of the iSync project) a few years ago and it has fixed most of the issues I had with offlineimap (mainly high resource usage).
- codemac 11y ago
  Several people have suggested similar. I should do it, but the nice part of OSS: I can do it whenever it bothers me enough :) Do you have a config posted anywhere? I'd love to see exactly how hard it would be to switch.
  - darkr 11y ago
    It's pretty straightforward to configure - Arch have a decent guide on their wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Isync https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Isync Edit: Arch seems to suggest running mbsync under a global systemd unit - user units are more appropriate for this task - my units can be found here: https://github.com/rdark/systemd-user-units https://github.com/rdark/systemd-user-units
gcr 11y ago
How do you send email with your pipeline? msmtp?
- codemac 11y ago
  emacs has built in smtp support, so I just use that. Notably, I use the smtpmail-multi package along with smtpmail in emacs to support sending from whatever address I put in the To: line[0] [0]: https://github.com/codemac/config/blob/master/emacs.d/boot.org#sending-mail https://github.com/codemac/config/blob/master/emacs.d/boot.o...

by codemac 11y ago

darkr 11y ago

I moved from offlineimap to mbsync (part of the iSync project) a few years ago and it has fixed most of the issues I had with offlineimap (mainly high resource usage).

codemac 11y ago
Several people have suggested similar. I should do it, but the nice part of OSS: I can do it whenever it bothers me enough :) Do you have a config posted anywhere? I'd love to see exactly how hard it would be to switch.
- darkr 11y ago
  It's pretty straightforward to configure - Arch have a decent guide on their wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Isync https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Isync Edit: Arch seems to suggest running mbsync under a global systemd unit - user units are more appropriate for this task - my units can be found here: https://github.com/rdark/systemd-user-units https://github.com/rdark/systemd-user-units

gcr 11y ago

How do you send email with your pipeline? msmtp?

codemac 11y ago
emacs has built in smtp support, so I just use that. Notably, I use the smtpmail-multi package along with smtpmail in emacs to support sending from whatever address I put in the To: line[0] [0]: https://github.com/codemac/config/blob/master/emacs.d/boot.org#sending-mail https://github.com/codemac/config/blob/master/emacs.d/boot.o...