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Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
- mynameisvlad 2y ago> This option is really simple: It allows us to override automatic sorting for certain folders. The specified folders are shown at the top of the folder list in the provided order. The rest are sorted alphabetically. This option should be in every email client. Sadly, I’ve never seen it in a graphical client (Thunderbird/Outlook) before. Isn’t this just favorites? I’ve used them for over a decade in Outlook to keep some folders above others. It’s not configurable by a file, sure, but the feature is there.
- SlackingOff123 2y agoIn Outlook, adding a folder to "favorites" creates another reference to the folder in the favorites list; it doesn't change the all-folders view under the account.
- mvdwoord 2y agoDon't have my work laptop at hand, but I'm quite sure that you can manually order regular folders as well as favorites by simple drag and drop. In our current version at least.
- SlackingOff123 2y agoIt is indeed possible to reorder the regular folders as well. It's just not a favorites specific feature.
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- aidenn0 2y agoGnome Evolution definitely supports modifying the folder sort order. There is an "Edit sort order" option in the "Folder" menu.
- kemiller 2y agoI miss using a TUI for mail but it looks like they haven’t really solved the most important reason I don’t, which is rendering HTML emails.
- Tmpod 2y agoYou can configure aerc to pass the email contents through an intermediate program depending on the MIME type. I believe it renders HTML through w3m by default or something like that. Of course it isn't full rendering with CSS and whatnot, but it is pretty good for most mails.
- kemiller 2y agoYeah, I get that, but it's still not a great experience, and inconsistent. It would be cool to see something that uses iTerm's support for inline images: https://iterm2.com/documentation-images.html https://iterm2.com/documentation-images.html Not sure how practical that actually would be, but I can dream.
- ndegruchy 2y agoEmacs (even on the TTY), can do a decent job of rendering markup using it's built in EWW browser. Works pretty well, at least for most of the content I'm looking for. Using it with Notmuch or mu4e is not the easiest thing to do, but it works pretty solidly.
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- tjoff 2y agoaerc is really weird in the sense of being designed as a client, not storing the mails on your computer. Which has some performance implications and limitations. Though you can have local mail too, really felt like a second-class feature when I looked. But to be fair it has been a long time since I looked at it. Given the above I'm really surprised that IMAP doesn't work better than it does. Often gets disconnected and I have to restart to get back to it. Also have trouble with shortcut overlapping in neovim and aerc. All in all, not super happy. I could maybe give it a second chance and see what I've missed in my setup, but currently more hopeful about neomutt.
- acaloiar 2y agoUsing it with local mail dirs is definitely preferable. I would assume that most people use mail TUIs in conjunction with `mbsync`, `notmuch`, and similar utilities that improve the overall experience.
- joemi 2y ago> Also have trouble with shortcut overlapping in neovim and aerc. I'm curious what you mean by this. Doesn't Vim use almost every key on the keyboard, so wouldn't this be a problem with pretty much any program?
- abound 2y agoYeah not sure what OP meant, it has a "passthrough" mode for composing, basically every key combo is passed to the editor (Helix in my case, very similar to Vim), and control is returned to aerc when you close the editor
- BeetleB 2y ago> aerc is really weird in the sense of being designed as a client, not storing the mails on your computer. Isn't that true for mutt as well?
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- Swarming 2y agoI might be missing something but why would you want to use a terminal interface when a GUI is so much easier?
- pwg 2y agoBesides the other reasons already posted, one big one if one runs one's own email server (have done so since circa 1999) is that remote access to email is just an ssh session.
- acaloiar 2y agoYour are indeed! Many people like myself prefer the lightning fast interaction of keyboard navigation, the mastery of the bindings to improve workflows, and the customization of bindings to create new ones.
- tills13 2y agook but GMail for example has keyboard shortcuts.
- Ringz 2y agoYeah, but I don’t have to learn new shortcuts since I can configure Aerc exactly like I want (and how my mental VIM shortcut model works).
- simonask 2y agoThis has to be a pretty backwards argument, to be honest. You may not have to learn "new shortcuts" (they're pretty standard), but you're perfectly willing to learn an entire text-based configuration scheme? VIM has its merits for _editing_ code, but that's not what you're doing with e-mails. You're usually just writing them and sending them off. It doesn't matter if you can save a few keystrokes to, say, change a word a few paragraphs back, and you're not producing structured text in any meaningful way. It's perfectly fine to like the terminal, but you _have_ to admit it is a preference that has nothing to do with "efficiency".
- hello_computer 2y agoThe problem with a TUI is that it’s a silo. Makes more sense to have pipeable, scriptable program(s) to retrieve/filter/sync/send. Then you can make several different UIs for it—vim, emacs, web, vscode, acme, thick client, etc—with a minimum of effort. TUI ends up re-implementing a good part of tmux unnecessarily.
- dpifke 2y agoComposability is what I love about Notmuch: https://notmuchmail.org/ https://notmuchmail.org/
- nextos 2y agoThe Notmuch client is also really well done.
- goku12 2y agoNotmuch (any perhaps mu) is perhaps the silver bullet you're looking for. Easily searchable, filter friendly and very much scriptable. Many TUIs including aerc and mutt can act as frontends for notmuch - though configuration may be hard. Notmuch is also supported by 'afew' - an initial mail tagger based on conditions you set (kind of like sieve, on the client side). This makes filtering of even new mails very easy. In all, I'm pretty satisfied with that side - with notmuch providing much of the flexibility and integration. The really messy part is the server - local maildir sync part. There are half a dozen or more tools to integrate. Mbsync, OfflineIMAP and msmtp are familiar to anyone doing 2-way syncing. But if you don't want mbsync waking up every 15mins to poll the IMAP server for new mails, or if you don't want to wait 15mins for new mail, you'll have to setup a mail push notifier that that's waiting for new mail using IMAP push protocols like IDLE. That's whole another setup, just to wake up mbsync when needed. But it's still only server to localdir sync. The reverse (using file change notifiers like inotify) requires an entirely different tool with a different setup. To make it all worse, Google has decided that they don't need to follow the standard protocols, the same way as everyone else does (for easily guessable reasons). That means that gmail needs special sync configuration or even special sync tools like lieer. And yet another issue is that IMAP (and SMTP) are old protocols with lots of optional features bolted on. We really need a better replacement for IMAP - something like JMAP. But very few providers, servers, sync tools (any?) or clients support it.
- purplezooey 2y agoLooks good but wish it was written in C.
- jjice 2y agoAny particular reason?
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- kbaker 2y agoFor anyone else wondering, it is written in Go.
- drewdevault 2y agoThe original aerc prototype was written in C. It wasn't great. https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc-legacy https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc-legacy
- anthk 2y agoGo it's ideal to replace old C/C++ based utilitarian software such as mail clients, music players and so on. For gaming and high performance needing tools such as the ffmpeg codecs and qemu, C/C++ have more sense there.
- supportengineer 2y agoI don't see an explanation anywhere what "TUI" is. I'm going to go with "text user interface".
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- coffeeindex 2y agoTerminal User Interface or Text-based User Interface
- syntaxing 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface
- daft_pink 2y agoI would really love to try a terminal email client with html email parsing. I miss pine.
- eddyfromtheblok 2y agoI used to use mutt and bind a keyboard shortcut to pipe HTML messages to w3m.
- wgrover 2y agoI miss Pine too. I could read/file/delete scores of plaintext emails in seconds using single keystrokes. Every email client I've used since Pine has been better at dealing with all the stuff we've bolted on to email (HTML, attachments, calendar invites...) but none of them have been as efficient at the core tasks of email as Pine was.
- stavros 2y agoWhat sort of keystrokes? The Fastmail web interface uses single keystrokes for interacting with mail, which is very handy.
- jjav 2y agomutt is alive and well, it's all I use for email. At work I'm forced to use the unusable gmail website, ugh.
- eddd-ddde 2y agoCurious what's unusable about gmail. I love the UI plus I also love the sidebar with tasks, calendar, etc. For me outlook is the real pain, I just redirect my emails there to my gmail.
- leephillips 2y agoGmail is not a real email client; it lacks basic commands such as mail bouncing. Perhaps worst of all, it has no concept of conversation threads, as I demonstrate here: https://lwn.net/Articles/837960/ https://lwn.net/Articles/837960/
- BJxdr 2y agohimalaya looks promising.. https://github.com/soywod/himalaya https://github.com/soywod/himalaya https://pimalaya.org/himalaya/cli/latest/index.html https://pimalaya.org/himalaya/cli/latest/index.html
- superkuh 2y agoThis is the first I've read of "TUI" standing for what I have to assume is "terminal user interface"? I'd call them CLI (command line interface). When did this TUI acronym start? What does it mean? Everyone else seems to know it and use it without defining.
- syntaxing 2y agoI dont know when it exactly started but I've heard and use this term at least 15 years. CLI != TUI. TUI is more like a "standard" window (GUI) but all text based.
- kkfx 2y agoWell... CLI is Command Line Interface, or a classic ./name --options reading output in a terminal and writing options, piping to other tools to tweak the output. It's good for some usages, and for scripting, but not much for event-loop based activities. TUI, Textual User Interface today tend to be a 2D terminal graphic, from ncurses to framebuffer. Classically it's simply a 2D UI based on text, so for instance Plan 9 ACME editor is a TUI since it's graphic but you can write text anywhere creating and changing menus, toolbars etc. I think there is no official Jargon File entry to clarify this, 99% of the time people name TUI an ncurses UI, witch is a debatable since it can be not really usable as text and so as Terminal User Interface, but a CLI is also a terminal user interface.
- zokier 2y agoCLIs can be graphical too! One classic example is AutoCAD: > The command line interface provides an important method for controlling AutoCAD. For many users, it is the primary input method. The command line is also used for displaying and selecting command options. https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-F14550A6-006F-47ED-AAD0-030E23D86A35 https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-F145...
- kkfx 2y agoVery right indeed, maybe then: - GUI :: graphical UI, typically NOT easy to mold by the end users, mostly widget based UIs, as their main characteristic or the user of them is more a consumer than a producer of something; - CLI :: a REPL, typically a terminal, but definitively not only that, their users enter commands, read responses as main characteristic; - TUI :: a 2D UI (typically though it could probably be also a 3D and 4D one) easy to be mold by the end user, the user is both a producer and a consumer as their main characteristic. An WYSIWYG editor is a kind of TUI in that regard, an Emacs buffer is another since in both text can be entered somewhat freely and can became "active" like clickable links. The user read, or consume, but also write, or produce. An ncurses UI should be TUI being text-based and 2D but still lack the user mold part so well... Still unsure how to classify the acronym...
- jmorenoamor 2y agoI love modern text based projects, really, thank you all for keeping the terminal alive and relevant.
- JulianWasTaken 2y agoI haven't tried to use this, but if someone has, how does it compare to alot (https://github.com/pazz/alot https://github.com/pazz/alot) which is the best TUI mail client I've used?
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- goku12 2y agoI haven't given alot much attention yet, but one feature that sets aerc apart is its focus on git-email workflow. Viewing, applying and sending patches is much easier with aerc. Remember that the author of aerc (Drew Devault) is also the developer of sourcehut.
- vondur 2y agoI was watching this guy demonstrate using Emacs to read email with mu4e. He pipes the HTML directly to Firefox for viewing the HTML parts, and some others he converts to PDF to view them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uulLBKBMX8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uulLBKBMX8
- kkfx 2y agoThe issues we humans have with emails in the present time lay in the lack of modern PERSONAL email tools development. For modern and personal I mean NOT living on someone else mailserver but easily download or sync remote IMAPs, or to use them directly (with some issues [1]) or via a personal homeserver IMAP, with a modern search-based client like notmuch-emacs/mu4e, and a built-in decent filtering tool (like MailDrop). We have essentially all the pieces (we can use IMAPFilter + OfflineIMAP to refile messages if we just sync them, or the old fetchmail + MailDrop if we download, using notmuch in Emacs or with also Aerc) but they are different software with different configs, styles, variable level of documentation and userfriendliness etc. There is NOTHING for less geek/expert users a thing that makes many considering email == webmails and so a webmail is a service by a third party (for such users) as is Slack, WhatsApp web and so on, a dangerous vision for the freedom of communication and the power emails offer. I hope some think about that enough to makes thing changes not only at geek levels... It's not that hard having a MailDrop rule that match an ISP regular bill launching a script that add the due date, amount to an agenda, than check the local accounting software for relevant transaction presence and warn if something it's not as expects, not that hard with text-based tools, like org-agenda, BeanCount, MailDrop, emails. VERY hard with modern software and that's a big loss for many potential power users who can't profit of such easy automation simply because for them it's too long to learn and implement and often even an unknown option. IT was born to simply life and augment human cognition, it's very sad almost all have forgotten that. [1] due to mail files naming syncing on multiple machines often create unread/tags annoyances, with duplicate messages generation and so on...
- jjav 2y ago> modern PERSONAL email tools The capitalized personal part there is so important! So few people today even realize what is possible, since they are captive in websites like gmail that have so very little functionality. email was always supposed to have a 100% customizable workflow, filtering, sorting, foldering, etc. We still have this of course, as all the old tools work. But there needs to be more awareness how great email is when used as originally intended. I'd despise email too if I believed gmail is email, but it's not. procmail and mutt still work just fine!
- abound 2y agoI got sick of having five different GMail tabs open (and two non-GMail mail tabs open), so I have been setting up aerc this week, using the Notmuch backend and either lieer (for GMail) or mbsync (for non-GMail) to sync the mail. Its taken maybe a dozen hours to get it set up and get into the flow, but I find it much, much more enjoyable than my previous workflow. Plus, though GMail tabs each took a 100+ MB of memory in Firefox, the new setup is much less heavyweight, and the local search is speedy and high quality.
- aidenn0 2y agoIf you are using Notmuch, I recommend trying bower[1]. It is a TUI for interacting with notmuch, and can even be configured to do so over ssh, so that e.g. opening attachments can happen on your local machine, even if your notmuch db is on a different computer. 1: https://github.com/wangp/bower https://github.com/wangp/bower
- BeetleB 2y ago> so I have been setting up aerc this week, using the Notmuch backend I strongly urge people to try notmuch. I switched to it in around 2011 and have never gone back. You don't have to use Emacs as the client. There are plenty of other frontends (including aerc). https://notmuchmail.org/frontends/ https://notmuchmail.org/frontends/ alot[1] is probably the most well known among them: https://github.com/pazz/alot https://github.com/pazz/alot
- snthpy 2y agoLooks really neat. Thanks. What do you use to sync your Gmail to local for notmuch to index?
- BeetleB 2y agoI don't use Gmail :-) You could use something like lieer[1] which will also sync your notmuch tags with gmail labels. If you don't want to sync the labels, I'm sure there are plenty of solutions out there to download Gmail to your local machine in a well known format like Maildir. [1] https://github.com/gauteh/lieer https://github.com/gauteh/lieer
- Dansvidania 2y ago> Email authoring is an absolute pleasure. I really like the fact I can now compose my emails in vim. Say no more.
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- Ringz 2y agoAerc has been my daily driver for a long, long time. I use it with IMAP (GMail and other reasons) but its completely usable with local mail directories. - I have redefined the Aerc key mapping with a set of Vim-like keybindings, since I am too old to learn new keybindings. And I bet now I as fast as possible slashing through countless mails… - I configured Aerc to work properly with Gmail and Imapfilter. - I created some filters that I missed from any mail client I ever tried (at least two keystrokes away). Like: ff = :filter -f<space> "{{index (.From | emails) 0}}" <Enter> # filter mails from current sender fs = :filter -H<space> subject:"{{.SubjectBase}}" <Enter> # Show Mails with the same subject fS = :filter -H<space> subject:<Space> # filter mails with subject e.g. "fs foo" filters mails with subject containing "foo" If someone is interested, I will link my GitHub repo.
- icambron 2y agoI'm interested, specifically with the vim keybindings, which would make getting started with it much easier for me.
- jackthetab 2y agoI'm interested in the Gmail integration. Tried it with mutt and decided I didn't want to spend an afternoon figuring it out. 'Sides, I hear that Gmail is phasing out IMAP. :-?
- Ringz 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41324757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41324757
- xyst 2y agoI frequently have to send e-mails from different addresses, so it seems I need to have manage multiple .conf files for this to work correctly? Example: - login user: example@example.com - alises: *@example.com, postmaster@example.com, abuse@example.com ... Mail addressed to "ex@example.com" is delivered to "example@example.com" inbox. But instead of replying from "example@example.com", I would prefer to reply via "ex@example.com" Thunderbird offers the feature to modify the "from" header for each mail (which is nice). So I am curious how I would be able to do this with Aerc without having to constantly fiddle with the configuration files (ie, create new conf, add conf entry, ...)
- noahmasur 2y agoAerc lets you do this, although it doesn't automatically fill it in based on the recipient in a reply. So you have to remember to adjust the sender for each email that you send.
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- pmarreck 2y agoThere's one big drawback I discovered the hard way, to not storing emails locally. If you have to leave an org for any reason, you lose access to the entire email history with that org. Some of which might still be important to you for a multitude of very legitimate reasons (such as contacts).
- johntash 2y agoAssuming by org you mean an employer - this is also a benefit. For legal reasons, you may not want to have a copy of any of those emails anymore, or at least your employer may not want you to. I try to forward important e-mails to myself if I think I'll need them outside of work (insurance details, etc).
- pmarreck 2y ago> or at least your employer may not want you to I'm not usually concerned with what the employer does or doesn't want if they've decided they don't want me. > I try to forward important e-mails to myself They'll invariably be aware of this. Your employer doesn't have to know everything about your business with them. They may think they deserve to, but that doesn't necessarily mean it needs to be true for you. One might argue that this is a bit of deception, but it's also self-preservation of self-interest.
- goku12 2y agoYou're right about keeping an offline copy of emails - especially with the help of an indexer like notmuch or mu. But I'm not sure why you mentioned it here. In case you think that aerc supports only IMAP, it has good integration with local maildirs and notmuch. Somebody else mentioned that maildir support felt like a second class citizen. This was true during the initial phase of the project. But the developers changed their mind some time later (there's a blog post about it somewhere) and gave it a better UX.
- andrewstuart 2y agoStrange. I came for the screenshots - I love a good TUI - but there were none.
- opan 2y agoThe official site has video of it in use. https://aerc-mail.org/ https://aerc-mail.org/
- sleepybrett 2y agopine
- nout 2y agoThat's pretty cool! I think it could use a bit more polish with the UI, maybe allow theming (for reference I did a theme for midnight commander recently - which is imo the best TUI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40741464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40741464 )
- Tmpod 2y agoaerc is completely themable through what they call "style sets": https://man.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc/configurations/stylesets.md https://man.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc/configurations/stylesets.md
- djha-skin 2y agoI have plumbed the depths of mutt, and I have discovered that, alas, graphical email clients fit my needs better. - Mutt/aerc doesn't support windows, an OS many use by preference or requirement (though I have explored this with mutt[2], it's hard getting anything to work in mailcap on windows) - Doesn't support viewing HTML email, a ubiquitous phenomenon - Doesn't support sending HTML email, which is fine until your coworkers wonder why your mails always look funky and replies lose formatting - I'm faster in Betterbird[1] than I am in mutt. Turns out drag-and-dropping mails into folders is pretty fast. - Configuring an even halfway decent set-up takes ages, Betterbird just works out of the box - Mutt relies on mbsync[3] or offlineimap[4], these tools don't support OAuth well. Betterbird supports it out of the box. (You can run without them, if you're willing to put up with bad buggy behavior in GMail where when messages are moved into folders they are only copied, the original message stays put in the original folder while a new message is copied into the other.) - With shift+click, Betterbird allows the user to reply or compose using plain text just fine when the need arises Sorry guys. I absolutely live in the terminal, but enough's enough. I'm out. I do like using newsboat as an RSS reader though, that investment panned out so far. 1: https://www.betterbird.eu/ https://www.betterbird.eu/ 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39812124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39812124 3: https://isync.sourceforge.io/mbsync.html https://isync.sourceforge.io/mbsync.html 4: https://www.offlineimap.org/ https://www.offlineimap.org/
- Ringz 2y agoAerc: Could probably be built on Windows. You just need Go and make. Betterbird supports MacOS only since a view weeks. My initial suggestions to build it for Mac was denied by the author because of „money“. Let’s you view html emails. It’s in the article. I bet moving mails by keystrokes are much faster than drag and drop per mouse. If you use the same folders again and again it even faster. Eg: pa = :archive flat<Enter> # move (think put or paste) mail in the archive folder pb = :move<space> Brain<Enter> # move mail in my Brain. pf = :move<space> # move (think put or paste) mail in folder. Next character filters folders. works out of the box. Configuration is less complicated than mutt (by far) Works fine with OAUTH BB is fine but I hate it that I can’t use my own keyboard shortcuts. A ubiquitous phenomenon.
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- aorth 2y agoThanks for this. I haven't looked at aerc in a few years and this is a good reminder.
- rediguanayum 2y agoConsider adding OAuth2.0 support. While Gmail IMAP/SMTP still supports Application Specific Passwords, you can see the writing on the wall, and the future is OAuth authentication.
- tristan957 2y agoIt already supports it and has for years.
- nojs 2y ago> In most multipart emails the plain text version is much less readable than the HTML version. It’s possible to grasp the meaning most of the time but sometimes it is just a garbled mess. Aerc has a few features to make this experience less bad. One option is viewing them through a HTML parser/browser (a combination of w3m and dante. This works well for some emails. The generated output is sometimes better than the plain text version of the email This seems like a perfect use case for a (local) LLM. Feed in the HTML and extract a clean plaintext version.
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- endorphine 2y agoWhile tui mail clients always seemed appealing to me, I think I realized why something in me resists them. The terminal is my "meditation space"; it's where I go when I want to focus deeply and do real and work that I enjoy; my playground. Viewing or writing emails is a chore, just like Slack. I don't want that iny terminal.
- Atreiden 2y agoThis is enlightening. I prefer to lean heavily on my terminal for most things, but tui email + web browsing never quite "clicked" for me. And I feel like this perfectly encapsulates why. Thanks for putting words to the feeling!
- haswell 2y agoI see this a bit differently. It’s exactly because some tasks feel like a chore that I gravitate to tools that improve the experience. To me, keeping these tasks separate is just reinforcing the negative association those tasks have built up over time in my brain. The degree to which they continue sucking has as much to do with my own thinking about the tasks as the tasks themselves. I’d rather find ways to make the suckiest tasks even a tiny bit more palatable, and at least in my case, don’t find that this impacts the things I love about working in the terminal in any way. At the end of the day, I’m going to have to tackle all of it eventually. Might as well make it easier on myself. YMMV.
- samuell 2y agoI'm kind of locked in to Thunderbird as it manages decades of my mail. I wonder if one could develop a decent TUI for Thunderbird / its database...
- skowalak 2y agoI feel the same. I have "only" about 15 years worth of mail in Thunderbird but I am getting increasingly tired of working with the GUI, at least for reading and searching historical mail. One of these days I will convert my mbox mail to Maildir and try out notmuch.
- abc123abc123 2y agoI switched to alpine (https://alpineapp.email/ https://alpineapp.email/) after 20 years of thunderbird. Converting 20 years of archived thunderbird emails took a couple of minutes with a script I found somewhere, so now everything rests securely in the Maildir format. I am quicker, happier and more efficient with TUI email than ever before, and as a bonus, the memory and CPU footprint is too small to see. What is important though is to keep in mind that I am not a power user. At most I might get 200 emails per day or so, but for that work loads everything works brilliantly. I have automated rules, shortcuts, I can define my own keys, I can even rewrite the source for smaller things if I want. I recommend everyone to invest a day or two just to see if it is for you.
- kuon 2y agoI love aerc but I use it with my own mail server that is on the same LAN, which makes it very fast. For HTML, if the mail is too complicated for the text renderer, you can pipe it to your browser with a single key. With this setup, it is quite ideal for me.
- AeZ1E 2y agonice to hear that aerc is finally getting the recognition it deserves after being in the shadows for so long. I like how simple and intuitive the account configuration is - definitely stands out compared to other clients. the folder management feature is a game-changer - goodbye messy inbox, hello organized emails!