I'm late to this conversation: happy to see such a robust discussion on mutt, but sad to see so many hardcore techies preferring gmail instead. To each their o

I'm late to this conversation: happy to see such a robust discussion on mutt, but sad to see so many hardcore techies preferring gmail instead. To each their own, of course, but mutt is one of the things I love most about *nix platforms. I've got a chromebox that requires I use webmail (the Fastmail web client is really, good actually) but elsewhere, mutt is the only way I can handle email. To the comment about mutt's poor addressbook support, you can use it with a CLI/CUI app called addressbook that's quite good, and you can interface with with other addressbook scripts to access carddav servers as well. I'm intrigued by the links to carddav support. For me, the HTML email and calendar invite issues are trivial, and grossly outweighed by the efficiency I get with mutt by being able to select and act on huge amounts of mail at once. The threaded view is essential. In a pinch, I use sylpheed/claws or even Thunderbird. But after using mutt at home, going to work where I'm forced to use Outlook makes me want to claw my eyes out: in my opinion, Outlook has gotten worse every year, and is barely useable at this point. Meanwhile in mutt, I can do things like "delete every message between dates X and Y and sent by person Z." It makes dealing with huge amounts of mail effortless. I also tire of editors, and cycle repeatedly through emacs, vim, slrn, and joe/jstar/jmacs - I love the flexibility. I combine it with Fastmail/IMAP, and wouldn't dream of going anywhere else. Gmail isn't for me: if it works for a lot of you, congrats - I'm past the point where I care about converting others to what I consider "the one true way." Just wanted to add to the conversation my opinion that the day they I can't use mutt for email is the day I stop emailing, period.