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I use mutt, mbsync, maildrop, and mblaze, mairix, msmtp, oauth2 with gmail. I have local speed, two way sync, customized email filtering, fast searching, vim ed

I use mutt, mbsync, maildrop, and mblaze, mairix, msmtp, oauth2 with gmail. I have local speed, two way sync, customized email filtering, fast searching, vim editing, and multiple machine freedom. I am happy.

zadwang 6y ago
As promised, I have created a document sharing my setup. Please check the following link: https://adorablefilthyorder--five-nine.repl.co/ https://adorablefilthyorder--five-nine.repl.co/
lytedev 6y ago
would love to know more about this setup! do you have all your mail stored on disk? attachments?
- pw6hv 6y ago
  Not parent but I have a similar setup. Yes, absolutely. I think storing our owns emails/attachments locally is part of best practices. That is our data and having a safe backup of it is a must.
  - uaas 6y ago
    Care to elaborate on the safety of backup? You mean it’s safe at your hard drive from availability or from privacy perspective?
    - pw6hv 6y ago
      Safe as in: "{random_provider} locked me out from my email account and I lost all my emails and attachments."
wyclif 6y ago
I'd love to read a write up of your current setup outlined above, it sounds intriguing.
toadi 6y ago
Want to see those configs...
- TheRealHairyHar 6y ago
  ditto
  - zadwang 6y ago
    I store all mails local. I can share my setup. I will take a while for me to find time and collect things in the same place. I will report back to this comment.
    - dumb1224 6y ago
      +1 for local mails. I love it when I can open it offline and fast to read / write some long emails.
  - gpanders 6y ago
    I'm not the OP but I have a similar setup. I keep my mutt [1] config in git, which is viewable publicly. [1]: https://git.sr.ht/~gpanders/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/mutt https://git.sr.ht/~gpanders/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/mut...
res0nat0r 6y ago
I would love absolutely Mutt if it weren't for everyone in the world using html email. I know you can view or strip html emails down to their essentials, but it doesn't render properly enough where I can reply to everything at work and not look like a fool because I'm missing some context. Too bad because Mutt is amazing.
- leephillips 6y ago
  I don’t find this to be a problem. Do you have it set up so it uses lynx or w3m to render the html in the terminal?
- feanaro 6y ago
  You can just set up Mutt to open HTML mail in Firefox.
  - dancek 6y ago
    A great example of the HN use of the word "just".
    - feanaro 6y ago
      I'm not sure what you are implying. That it is hard? It is only a single line added to the `mailcap` file: text/html; firefox '%s' &; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; needsterminal; After that's in place, you simply open attachments (via `view-attachments`) and call `view-attach` (usually via a key binding) on the HTML attachment.
      - hvdijk 6y ago
        For anyone currently using a GUI mail client where HTML mail works out of the box, this is not something they will spend time figuring out before concluding that HTML mails just don't work. And this is a complete non-starter for those who like Mutt on the basis of having something that also works in non-graphical environments.
wincent 6y ago
I had a similar set-up and did some screencasts on it a few years back (link below). It worked well, and was the least-sucky thing out there for plain-text email, but in the end I just got fatigued at continuously having to switch to another viewer (a browser) in order to properly see HTML email, which was ubiquitous. I ran back into Gmail's loving embrace, not happily, but reluctantly. Overview is here: https://youtu.be/obY1um6ehDM https://youtu.be/obY1um6ehDM
gpanders 6y ago
I use a similar setup. I'm curious what you use for msmtp for though: most Mutt setup guides I've read recommend using msmtp as well, but I've always just used Mutt's native SMTP client and it works fine, so I've never understood the need for a separate SMTP program.

zadwang 6y ago

As promised, I have created a document sharing my setup. Please check the following link: https://adorablefilthyorder--five-nine.repl.co/ https://adorablefilthyorder--five-nine.repl.co/

lytedev 6y ago

would love to know more about this setup! do you have all your mail stored on disk? attachments?

pw6hv 6y ago
Not parent but I have a similar setup. Yes, absolutely. I think storing our owns emails/attachments locally is part of best practices. That is our data and having a safe backup of it is a must.
- uaas 6y ago
  Care to elaborate on the safety of backup? You mean it’s safe at your hard drive from availability or from privacy perspective?
  - pw6hv 6y ago
    Safe as in: "{random_provider} locked me out from my email account and I lost all my emails and attachments."

wyclif 6y ago

I'd love to read a write up of your current setup outlined above, it sounds intriguing.

toadi 6y ago

Want to see those configs...

TheRealHairyHar 6y ago
ditto
- zadwang 6y ago
  I store all mails local. I can share my setup. I will take a while for me to find time and collect things in the same place. I will report back to this comment.
  - dumb1224 6y ago
    +1 for local mails. I love it when I can open it offline and fast to read / write some long emails.
- gpanders 6y ago
  I'm not the OP but I have a similar setup. I keep my mutt [1] config in git, which is viewable publicly. [1]: https://git.sr.ht/~gpanders/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/mutt https://git.sr.ht/~gpanders/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/mut...

res0nat0r 6y ago

I would love absolutely Mutt if it weren't for everyone in the world using html email. I know you can view or strip html emails down to their essentials, but it doesn't render properly enough where I can reply to everything at work and not look like a fool because I'm missing some context. Too bad because Mutt is amazing.

leephillips 6y ago
I don’t find this to be a problem. Do you have it set up so it uses lynx or w3m to render the html in the terminal?
feanaro 6y ago
You can just set up Mutt to open HTML mail in Firefox.
- dancek 6y ago
  A great example of the HN use of the word "just".
  - feanaro 6y ago
    I'm not sure what you are implying. That it is hard? It is only a single line added to the `mailcap` file: text/html; firefox '%s' &; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; needsterminal; After that's in place, you simply open attachments (via `view-attachments`) and call `view-attach` (usually via a key binding) on the HTML attachment.
    - hvdijk 6y ago
      For anyone currently using a GUI mail client where HTML mail works out of the box, this is not something they will spend time figuring out before concluding that HTML mails just don't work. And this is a complete non-starter for those who like Mutt on the basis of having something that also works in non-graphical environments.

wincent 6y ago

I had a similar set-up and did some screencasts on it a few years back (link below). It worked well, and was the least-sucky thing out there for plain-text email, but in the end I just got fatigued at continuously having to switch to another viewer (a browser) in order to properly see HTML email, which was ubiquitous. I ran back into Gmail's loving embrace, not happily, but reluctantly. Overview is here: https://youtu.be/obY1um6ehDM https://youtu.be/obY1um6ehDM

gpanders 6y ago

I use a similar setup. I'm curious what you use for msmtp for though: most Mutt setup guides I've read recommend using msmtp as well, but I've always just used Mutt's native SMTP client and it works fine, so I've never understood the need for a separate SMTP program.