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Off topic: Can anyone recommend a good command-line mail client. I'm used mutt quite a bit. Wondering if there are any more out there that are at least as good

Off topic: Can anyone recommend a good command-line mail client. I'm used mutt quite a bit. Wondering if there are any more out there that are at least as good as mutt.

thelittlelisper 14y ago
I always go back to mutt. It does one thing, read email, and it does it well. The key is to set it up appropriately. Don't use mutt for downloading your email, especially if you wanna deal with IMAP. Use isync (mbsync) for that purpose (I used to use offlineimap, but it's buggy and not very fast). There's also notmuch, which I use for indexing my email. It also contains a pretty good email reader.
- pyre 14y ago
  | I used to use offlineimap, but it's buggy My favourite bug was when it was blocking on wanting a password, but wasn't accepting input. I had to kill it externally because it wasn't accepting C-\ or C-c.
  - thelittlelisper 14y ago
    I only recently discovered isync (mbsync), which is sad given that it is crazy fast and written by the mutt author. offlineimap is cool, but it is sadly quite slow and crashes often. New releases usually bring as many bugs as they fix.
- andreasvc 14y ago
  Mutt's IMAP support is working fine for me. And enabling the header cache makes opening mailboxes fast.
  - thelittlelisper 14y ago
    If your connection drops often it's a nightmare.
  - kerneis 14y ago
    Until your cache header grows too much and freezes or even segfaults mutt. (Removing it fixes the issue.)
- themckman 14y ago
  Thanks for the tip on isync/mbsync.
- jackalope 14y ago
  I use mutt's built-in IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. It works flawlessly for me (Mutt 1.5.21).
mastar2323 14y ago
alpine?
- a3n 14y ago
  I used pine and alpine for a year or so, I liked it a lot.
jfb 14y ago
Emacs + mu + mu4e, with offlineimap. I need to switch to isync, because offlineimap is pants.
- cksk 14y ago
  Same here, but, if you use it with Gmail, let me recommend Abdó Roig-Maranges' fork of offlineimap, which implements labels[1][2]! That way you can sync only [Gmail].All Mail and all the other info (such as /Inbox, /Sent and any other custom labels) come as X-Keywords in the header (no duplicates, and no lost metadata)[3]. And mu4e supports all this[4]! [1] https://github.com/aroig/offlineimap https://github.com/aroig/offlineimap [2] The homebrew tap, if that's your thing: https://github.com/jeastman/homebrew-offlineimapwithlabels https://github.com/jeastman/homebrew-offlineimapwithlabels [3] [Gmail].Trash and [Gmail].Drafts are also real folders, not just labels. You should sync them too. [Gmail].Sent Mail is just a saved search for /Sent labels. mu4e asks for a "sent" folder but, since you should (setq mu4e-sent-messages-behavior 'delete) anyway with Gmail, it becomes a dummy folder locally, and all is well. [4] A good config example: https://github.com/pygatea/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs.d/config/my-mu4e.el https://github.com/pygatea/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs.d/conf...
  - jfb 14y ago
    Sweet. Thanks!
  - akkartik 13y ago
    I've bookmarked your comment. I'm gonna be forced to move back to commandline when gmail finally foists the new compose on me (fuckers[1]). [1] Some of us want to, you know, use email for longer messages than a tweet. It's hard to do that when PgUp/PgDn are so janky. And don't even get me started on S-PgUp and S-PgDn.
welterde 14y ago
offlineimap+notmuch+alot is an quite nice combination.
- jff 14y ago
  I like notmuch with the Emacs notmuch client, because it'll work fine when I only have a terminal available, but when I run Emacs+X11, it'll also display images inline and has some decent mouse support.
tremendo 13y ago
Maype Sup? http://sup.rubyforge.org/ http://sup.rubyforge.org/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sup https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sup

Off topic: Can anyone recommend a good command-line mail client. I'm used mutt quite a bit. Wondering if there are any more out there that are at least as good as mutt.

thelittlelisper 14y ago

I always go back to mutt. It does one thing, read email, and it does it well. The key is to set it up appropriately. Don't use mutt for downloading your email, especially if you wanna deal with IMAP. Use isync (mbsync) for that purpose (I used to use offlineimap, but it's buggy and not very fast). There's also notmuch, which I use for indexing my email. It also contains a pretty good email reader.

pyre 14y ago
| I used to use offlineimap, but it's buggy My favourite bug was when it was blocking on wanting a password, but wasn't accepting input. I had to kill it externally because it wasn't accepting C-\ or C-c.
- thelittlelisper 14y ago
  I only recently discovered isync (mbsync), which is sad given that it is crazy fast and written by the mutt author. offlineimap is cool, but it is sadly quite slow and crashes often. New releases usually bring as many bugs as they fix.
andreasvc 14y ago
Mutt's IMAP support is working fine for me. And enabling the header cache makes opening mailboxes fast.
- thelittlelisper 14y ago
  If your connection drops often it's a nightmare.
- kerneis 14y ago
  Until your cache header grows too much and freezes or even segfaults mutt. (Removing it fixes the issue.)
themckman 14y ago
Thanks for the tip on isync/mbsync.
jackalope 14y ago
I use mutt's built-in IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. It works flawlessly for me (Mutt 1.5.21).

mastar2323 14y ago

alpine?

a3n 14y ago
I used pine and alpine for a year or so, I liked it a lot.

jfb 14y ago

Emacs + mu + mu4e, with offlineimap. I need to switch to isync, because offlineimap is pants.

cksk 14y ago
Same here, but, if you use it with Gmail, let me recommend Abdó Roig-Maranges' fork of offlineimap, which implements labels[1][2]! That way you can sync only [Gmail].All Mail and all the other info (such as /Inbox, /Sent and any other custom labels) come as X-Keywords in the header (no duplicates, and no lost metadata)[3]. And mu4e supports all this[4]! [1] https://github.com/aroig/offlineimap https://github.com/aroig/offlineimap [2] The homebrew tap, if that's your thing: https://github.com/jeastman/homebrew-offlineimapwithlabels https://github.com/jeastman/homebrew-offlineimapwithlabels [3] [Gmail].Trash and [Gmail].Drafts are also real folders, not just labels. You should sync them too. [Gmail].Sent Mail is just a saved search for /Sent labels. mu4e asks for a "sent" folder but, since you should (setq mu4e-sent-messages-behavior 'delete) anyway with Gmail, it becomes a dummy folder locally, and all is well. [4] A good config example: https://github.com/pygatea/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs.d/config/my-mu4e.el https://github.com/pygatea/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs.d/conf...
- jfb 14y ago
  Sweet. Thanks!
- akkartik 13y ago
  I've bookmarked your comment. I'm gonna be forced to move back to commandline when gmail finally foists the new compose on me (fuckers[1]). [1] Some of us want to, you know, use email for longer messages than a tweet. It's hard to do that when PgUp/PgDn are so janky. And don't even get me started on S-PgUp and S-PgDn.

welterde 14y ago

offlineimap+notmuch+alot is an quite nice combination.

jff 14y ago
I like notmuch with the Emacs notmuch client, because it'll work fine when I only have a terminal available, but when I run Emacs+X11, it'll also display images inline and has some decent mouse support.

tremendo 13y ago

Maype Sup? http://sup.rubyforge.org/ http://sup.rubyforge.org/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sup https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sup