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I've been using Neomutt for some time now and I'm already contemplating ditching it. Fewer emails these days are purely text, viewing them brings me right back

I've been using Neomutt for some time now and I'm already contemplating ditching it. Fewer emails these days are purely text, viewing them brings me right back to the browser anyways. Never got into the Org-Mode hype for Doom Emacs. I do love Magit though, it remains the best git tool I've used to date, but the pain of wrestling with some of my lsp plugins (Looking at ESS) has made waste more time than anything.

pfortuny 5y ago
mu4e is mail on steroids. If you need to automate anything you can grok a small script in an afternoon (much less if you are familiar with elisp) and have it work for you in ways no other mail agent will. My need: write personalized exams for my (50-ish) students, send an email for each with his respective exam, and upon receiving the replies, save each attachment in its own directory. Some perl+latex+mu4e+elisp ans voilà. Edit: I refuse to use my Uni’s version of moodle for long-reply exams. Also using pdftools has changed my life.
- bhaak 5y ago
  > mu4e is mail on steroids. If you need to automate anything you can grok a small script in an afternoon (much less if you are familiar with elisp) It’s not a very good sales pitch to claim that automating anything needs a script and then even an afternoon to do it. Like I really hope that simple filter rules take at most a minute not hours. :-) > and have it work for you in ways no other mail agent will. How does it compare to Gnus?
upofadown 5y ago
I have found that running the html email through w3m generates usable text in almost all cases: text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html; copiousoutput; ... in your .mailcap. The result is usually better than what ends up in in the text portion of dual text/html emails. Particularly nice when someone thinks they need html to show a table.

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I've been using Neomutt for some time now and I'm already contemplating ditching it. Fewer emails these days are purely text, viewing them brings me right back

by bickwhale 5y ago

pfortuny 5y ago
mu4e is mail on steroids. If you need to automate anything you can grok a small script in an afternoon (much less if you are familiar with elisp) and have it work for you in ways no other mail agent will. My need: write personalized exams for my (50-ish) students, send an email for each with his respective exam, and upon receiving the replies, save each attachment in its own directory. Some perl+latex+mu4e+elisp ans voilà. Edit: I refuse to use my Uni’s version of moodle for long-reply exams. Also using pdftools has changed my life.
- bhaak 5y ago
  > mu4e is mail on steroids. If you need to automate anything you can grok a small script in an afternoon (much less if you are familiar with elisp) It’s not a very good sales pitch to claim that automating anything needs a script and then even an afternoon to do it. Like I really hope that simple filter rules take at most a minute not hours. :-) > and have it work for you in ways no other mail agent will. How does it compare to Gnus?
upofadown 5y ago
I have found that running the html email through w3m generates usable text in almost all cases: text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html; copiousoutput; ... in your .mailcap. The result is usually better than what ends up in in the text portion of dual text/html emails. Particularly nice when someone thinks they need html to show a table.