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The only mail clients that I can make do everything I want them to do are gnus, mutt, and sylpheed. I like having my mail client inside emacs, but I switched b
by dfranke 19y ago
The only mail clients that I can make do everything I want them to do are gnus, mutt, and sylpheed. I like having my mail client inside emacs, but I switched back from gnus to mutt. Gnus takes too long to start up and is too brittle if your IMAP connection is unreliable. Mutt does occasionally hang for the same reasons, but then it's just a matter of C-\ and rerun it, rather than taking my whole emacs session with it.
Thunderbird is missing the ability to pipe messages through an external process.
- kmt 19y agognus has been ok for me for two reasons: 1) fastmail.fm (the IMAP service I use has been very reliable for years now) 2) I don't actually start gnus, or emacs, or a linux terminal session on a daily basis; I just keep them running and use ssh and screen to get to them. It's only text mode of course, but for the last 5 years or so I rarely had a real need for anything more than text (and if such need arises, I just use the web access to the IMAP server or another MUA).
- davidw 19y agoI abandoned gnus when I decided I needed a spam filter, and just didn't want to spend a whole day fiddling with Emacs Lisp, and worrying about silently trashing my mail.