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For me, it's because GMail is hands-down the best email client I have EVER used. For comparison, I have used at length on a daily basis Pine, Elm, Agent, Mutt,

For me, it's because GMail is hands-down the best email client I have EVER used. For comparison, I have used at length on a daily basis Pine, Elm, Agent, Mutt, Thunderbird, Outlook, Outlook Express, Lotus Notes and GMail. GMail is so stupidly better I can hardly believe nobody's done a decent fat-client imitation.

lwhalen 12y ago
Check out Roundcube. Maybe not 100% GMail, but still light-years ahead of the MUAs you listed.
jordigh 12y ago
You mean something like mailpile? https://www.mailpile.is/ https://www.mailpile.is/
- dingaling 12y ago
  > You mean something like mailpile? Looks good as a client but they have some issues with / absence of STARTTLS support ( for both IMAP and SMTP ) at the beta stage, so I would advise people against using it outside a controlled or test environment right now https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/issues/1092 https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/issues/1092 https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/issues/868 https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/issues/868 And here are the beta notes: https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/wiki/Release-Notes-201409-Beta https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/wiki/Release-Notes-2014... "Does not yet recognize whether messages are "new" or already read" So not quite ready as a drop-in replacement.
taeric 12y ago
Oddly, I used to feel the same. I recall vaguely liking Mutt back in the day, but I really liked gmail. Especially with the keyboard shortcuts enabled (and without... I actually hate it). Not that surprisingly, the lure of emacs really hit me and I find gnus to be a better interface now. Much better.
- davidgerard 12y ago
  The striking difference: with GMail I could actually keep up with my mailing lists.
  - taeric 12y ago
    Oddly, I feel that gmail actually makes this worse. Specifically, mailing lists are one place where I actively like threaded messages.
    - davidgerard 12y ago
      Oh, there's definitely a heavy dose YMMV :-)

lwhalen 12y ago

Check out Roundcube. Maybe not 100% GMail, but still light-years ahead of the MUAs you listed.

jordigh 12y ago

You mean something like mailpile? https://www.mailpile.is/ https://www.mailpile.is/

dingaling 12y ago
> You mean something like mailpile? Looks good as a client but they have some issues with / absence of STARTTLS support ( for both IMAP and SMTP ) at the beta stage, so I would advise people against using it outside a controlled or test environment right now https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/issues/1092 https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/issues/1092 https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/issues/868 https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/issues/868 And here are the beta notes: https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/wiki/Release-Notes-201409-Beta https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/wiki/Release-Notes-2014... "Does not yet recognize whether messages are "new" or already read" So not quite ready as a drop-in replacement.

taeric 12y ago

Oddly, I used to feel the same. I recall vaguely liking Mutt back in the day, but I really liked gmail. Especially with the keyboard shortcuts enabled (and without... I actually hate it). Not that surprisingly, the lure of emacs really hit me and I find gnus to be a better interface now. Much better.

davidgerard 12y ago
The striking difference: with GMail I could actually keep up with my mailing lists.
- taeric 12y ago
  Oddly, I feel that gmail actually makes this worse. Specifically, mailing lists are one place where I actively like threaded messages.
  - davidgerard 12y ago
    Oh, there's definitely a heavy dose YMMV :-)