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Another extremely happy user of the following combination waves hi: • Mutt • OfflineIMAP (to be replaced with `mbsync`; OfflineIMAP is not being ported to Pyt

Another extremely happy user of the following combination waves hi: • Mutt • OfflineIMAP (to be replaced with `mbsync`; OfflineIMAP is not being ported to Python 3, unfortunately) • Notmuch — for fast indexing, searching, and tagging e-mails • Postfix — Mail Transfer Agent; offline queuing. Overall, it's one of the most robust pieces of software; Postfix never failed even once on me in nearly six years.

dm319 6y ago
Same here, though I moved to mbsync a few years ago and I need to check out postfix. It is such a great email client that I feel lost and walking through treacle using anything else. I don't work in the tech field, but I have a lot of emails to deal with. People come to me now to ask me if I can find specific important emails from a while ago that they are after. Outlook is hilariously bad at searching. I wish I could use mutt instead of outlook for my work. EDIT: It looks like I'm using msmtp instead of postfix - any advantages to switching over to postfix?
- kashyapc 6y ago
  If 'msmtp' is working for your use case, just don't fix it. :-) (Although, someone here might be able give a comparative rundown.) I just deal with a lot of email volume - large portion of it public mailing lists; Postfix has been a trusted comrade.
pelasaco 6y ago
I can recommend https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter. I have it running in a private serving, filtering the emails for me..
- kashyapc 6y ago
  Thank you; will check it out.
minusf 6y ago
mbsync is far superior in resource usage and speed compared to OfflineIMAP, python3 would not help with that. combined with fdm filtering/sorting/archiving the speed has been incredible.
- kashyapc 6y ago
  Noted on the efficient resource usage. My mentioning of Python 3 was not related to resource usage. It was in context of Python 2 being deprecated.

dm319 6y ago

Same here, though I moved to mbsync a few years ago and I need to check out postfix. It is such a great email client that I feel lost and walking through treacle using anything else. I don't work in the tech field, but I have a lot of emails to deal with. People come to me now to ask me if I can find specific important emails from a while ago that they are after. Outlook is hilariously bad at searching. I wish I could use mutt instead of outlook for my work. EDIT: It looks like I'm using msmtp instead of postfix - any advantages to switching over to postfix?

kashyapc 6y ago
If 'msmtp' is working for your use case, just don't fix it. :-) (Although, someone here might be able give a comparative rundown.) I just deal with a lot of email volume - large portion of it public mailing lists; Postfix has been a trusted comrade.

pelasaco 6y ago

I can recommend https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter. I have it running in a private serving, filtering the emails for me..

kashyapc 6y ago
Thank you; will check it out.

minusf 6y ago

mbsync is far superior in resource usage and speed compared to OfflineIMAP, python3 would not help with that. combined with fdm filtering/sorting/archiving the speed has been incredible.

kashyapc 6y ago
Noted on the efficient resource usage. My mentioning of Python 3 was not related to resource usage. It was in context of Python 2 being deprecated.