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I 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

by abound 2y ago

I 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 ago
If 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 ago
  Looks really neat. Thanks. What do you use to sync your Gmail to local for notmuch to index?
  - BeetleB 2y ago
    I 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
    - snthpy 2y ago
      Thank you

by abound 2y ago

aidenn0 2y ago

If 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 ago
Looks really neat. Thanks. What do you use to sync your Gmail to local for notmuch to index?
- BeetleB 2y ago
  I 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
  - snthpy 2y ago
    Thank you