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I've moved to Aerc from Neomutt a few months ago and never regretted it. Aerc has filters and builtin terminal support. This allows cool syntax highlighting fo
by gnull 4y ago
I've moved to Aerc from Neomutt a few months ago and never regretted it.
Aerc has filters and builtin terminal support. This allows cool syntax highlighting for displayed emails and also support for previewing unusual formats. Aerc has well-made multiple accounts support and tabs out of the box, while with Mutt I had to keep two separate muttrc files for my two accounts and create bash alias for them. Aerc can filter the emails in the current folder and show only the ones that match an expression, I could never do that it Mutt. And overall, it just feels more modern and reasonable, even its config file format feels better.
I had a few things I found weird in mutt and never could fix them through config. For example, PgDown in Mutt goes to next email when I reach the bottom of the current one. Or deleting email keeps it displayed in the list (making you spam $ after each deletion) but doesn't allow navigating to it to undelete (Mutt devs want me to select emails to undelete using regexp? seriously?). I kept having wtf moments like this with Mutt all the time, I almost never have them with Aerc.
Some things still need polishing in Aerc, but it's improving fast.
- jpe90 4y agoAny examples of things that you feel need polishing with Aerc?
- gnull 4y agoNotmuch backend doesn't allow saving sent messages to the maildir. Gpg encryption produced an error when I tried it just now. Scripting is limited: actions that you can assign to keybindings can do only very simple actions (which might be a good thing if aerc finds just the right set of simple actions to make available). Recently it was producing errors if the mime-type of an email attachment is quoted. This is something very rare, but some mailers do that. The issue was fixed within a couple of days after my report.
- tome 4y ago> PgDown in Mutt goes to next email when I reach the bottom of the current one. set pager_stop=yes > Or deleting email keeps it displayed in the list ... but doesn't allow navigating to it to undelete -bind index n next-undeleted -bind index p previous-undeleted -bind pager n next-undeleted -bind pager p previous-undeleted +bind index n next-entry +bind index p previous-entry +bind pager n next-entry +bind pager p previous-entry (Not sure why these aren't the defaults. They seem much more usable than the defaults!)