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I prefer notmuch because it is extremely simple. Everything is a tag. There are no folders. Furthermore, notmuch never ever touches your mail storage. It just

by nextos 4y ago

I prefer notmuch because it is extremely simple. Everything is a tag. There are no folders. Furthermore, notmuch never ever touches your mail storage. It just operates on tags. It is up to you how to turn tag changes into actions. I find this incredibly elegant and flexible. I do not tag things manually. I tag incoming messages automatically using searches. Since search is so powerful and quick, I do not really feel I need tags. If you do, mu or mutt/neomutt might be better suited.

throwawayiionqz 4y ago
Why tag anything at all? If the query is fast you may run the query again. This avoids migrating tags if the query gets modified/improved etc.
- em-bee 4y ago
  i use tags for annotations and actions: this email i need to reply to. that one links to a story i want to read later. etc. it's not possible to search for that without tags, because those states change and don't depend on the actual emails
- nextos 4y ago
  AFAIK, you need tags at least for read/unread. I don't really use tags, but have a few searches to archive email from mailing lists without seeing it in my inbox. For other usecases, I do as you suggested.
dima55 4y ago
Now I'm confused. notmuch does tags while mu does not. If you do NOT need tags, then you want mu. That's the one that doesn't have tags. mu using standard IMAP folders means it can interoperate with other mail tools. That's the biggest consideration, I think
rjzzleep 4y ago
neomutt's main selling point was that it has first class integration with notmuch and that because that it has a unified inbox like the desktop clients. One thing I could never figure out with the folderless approach like neomutt is how to make per account compose and responses. In mutt I would set the account based on the folder I'm in and depending on what I'm responding to, but I don't know how to do that in neomutt or rather how to do it when using notmuch in neomutt. I do use mu4e, which seems to be a bit easier to configure for multiple accounts.
- apetresc 4y ago
  You do it with folder-hooks. When you switch to a query that returns mail from a different account, you set a folder-hook that switches your From: address.

by nextos 4y ago

throwawayiionqz 4y ago

Why tag anything at all? If the query is fast you may run the query again. This avoids migrating tags if the query gets modified/improved etc.

em-bee 4y ago
i use tags for annotations and actions: this email i need to reply to. that one links to a story i want to read later. etc. it's not possible to search for that without tags, because those states change and don't depend on the actual emails
nextos 4y ago
AFAIK, you need tags at least for read/unread. I don't really use tags, but have a few searches to archive email from mailing lists without seeing it in my inbox. For other usecases, I do as you suggested.

dima55 4y ago

Now I'm confused. notmuch does tags while mu does not. If you do NOT need tags, then you want mu. That's the one that doesn't have tags. mu using standard IMAP folders means it can interoperate with other mail tools. That's the biggest consideration, I think

rjzzleep 4y ago

neomutt's main selling point was that it has first class integration with notmuch and that because that it has a unified inbox like the desktop clients. One thing I could never figure out with the folderless approach like neomutt is how to make per account compose and responses. In mutt I would set the account based on the folder I'm in and depending on what I'm responding to, but I don't know how to do that in neomutt or rather how to do it when using notmuch in neomutt. I do use mu4e, which seems to be a bit easier to configure for multiple accounts.

apetresc 4y ago
You do it with folder-hooks. When you switch to a query that returns mail from a different account, you set a folder-hook that switches your From: address.