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One of the best decisions I made was to use a cli email client. Parsing email is much faster and eaiser. And I don't have to look at spam^H^H^H^Hmarketing email

One of the best decisions I made was to use a cli email client. Parsing email is much faster and eaiser. And I don't have to look at spam^H^H^H^Hmarketing emails any more.

TeMPOraL 10y ago
Any particular one you recommend? I've been meaning to use Emacs for my e-mail for quite some time now, but I can't get myself to jump through all the hurdles required to get reliable access to GMail.
- CaptSpify 10y ago
  I personally love mutt, because I can customize it to be vim-like. Most of my co-workers prefer alpine
- parfe 10y ago
  In Emacs I use mu4e pointed at a local Maildir and sync against an imap server using mbsync (switched away from offlineimap because of UID validity issues, which is apparently offlineimap's only method of tracking messages, may be a flaw with microsoft's imap implementation, but offlineimap can't handle it). mbsync needs (setq mu4e-change-filenames-when-moving t) so it can properly handle file moves. Haven't used it against gmail, but because microsoft wants you using outlook only, imap is a bit buggy so you need to set PipelineDepth 1 in your .mbsyncrc IMAPAccount block because it seems that the microsoft imap server has account global variables so multiple threads/connections will step on each other. And perversely, (setq mu4e-view-prefer-html t) has to be set because many rich html composing clients will send a text version that's completely blank, leaving you staring at a blank body if the client defaulted to text only. You'll have to find a html rendering command that works for you. Something like (setq mu4e-html2text-command "html2text -utf8 -nobs -width 72") Or google around for custom commands other people have published.
  - taeric 10y ago
    There is a special hell for people that send blank text parts for email.
- taeric 10y ago
  I haven't hooked up to gmail, yet. I can't imagine it is harder than hooking up to exchange, though. For that GNUS really hasn't been that bad. I quite enjoy it.

One of the best decisions I made was to use a cli email client. Parsing email is much faster and eaiser. And I don't have to look at spam^H^H^H^Hmarketing emails any more.

TeMPOraL 10y ago

Any particular one you recommend? I've been meaning to use Emacs for my e-mail for quite some time now, but I can't get myself to jump through all the hurdles required to get reliable access to GMail.

CaptSpify 10y ago
I personally love mutt, because I can customize it to be vim-like. Most of my co-workers prefer alpine
parfe 10y ago
In Emacs I use mu4e pointed at a local Maildir and sync against an imap server using mbsync (switched away from offlineimap because of UID validity issues, which is apparently offlineimap's only method of tracking messages, may be a flaw with microsoft's imap implementation, but offlineimap can't handle it). mbsync needs (setq mu4e-change-filenames-when-moving t) so it can properly handle file moves. Haven't used it against gmail, but because microsoft wants you using outlook only, imap is a bit buggy so you need to set PipelineDepth 1 in your .mbsyncrc IMAPAccount block because it seems that the microsoft imap server has account global variables so multiple threads/connections will step on each other. And perversely, (setq mu4e-view-prefer-html t) has to be set because many rich html composing clients will send a text version that's completely blank, leaving you staring at a blank body if the client defaulted to text only. You'll have to find a html rendering command that works for you. Something like (setq mu4e-html2text-command "html2text -utf8 -nobs -width 72") Or google around for custom commands other people have published.
- taeric 10y ago
  There is a special hell for people that send blank text parts for email.
taeric 10y ago
I haven't hooked up to gmail, yet. I can't imagine it is harder than hooking up to exchange, though. For that GNUS really hasn't been that bad. I quite enjoy it.