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Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

badosu wrote: post #39

Pretty amazing! Some observations: - Attachments that don't have a filter can't be visualized. For this case would be interesting to open with 'xdg-open' when hit , and/or '.mailcap' support. - Account password is stored in plaintext - Occasional rendering artifacts when switching tabs/folders If those above are fixed plus theming, unread, etc. I can easily see myself using it as my daily driver.

>Attachments that don't have a filter can't be visualized

You can use :save or :pipe on these, but yeah - xdg-open would also be cool. Mailcap support would also be great.

>Account password is stored in plaintext

In a chmod 600 file, though. There's also an option for configuring a command to run to retrieve your password by e.g. decrypting it with gpg: see aerc-imap(5), or :help imap, for details.

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Post by microcolonel »

Gnus has been great for me, but after about 40k+ (I stopped looking at the counts actually) messages in my Maildir, performance suffers for me (that is, if I start gnus from scratch it takes more than an hour and a half to open, with my entire Maildir in the page cache, and a huge amount of extremely fast memory). Notmuch doesn't seem to help at all, or if it would, it's hard to tell if it's configured correctly.

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Post by anarazel »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #36
anarazel wrote: post #34

Looks interesting! Based on a quick stroll through the source code, I don't see any search integration. Is that correct? I guess I could just shell out to notmuch? But I do find virtual folders for searches really convenient. Currently using neomutt with notmuch support, over a Maildir (which in turn is separately synced via IMAP using mbsync). Not having all the context vanish ala mutt would sure be nice.

There's a ticket planned for adding a notmuch backend straight up: https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc2/105 No indirection through mbsync & maildir. This shouldn't be terribly hard - if you're interested in working on this feature, swing by the IRC channel to get a rundown of the technical details. There's also a ticket for search in general: https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc2/93 Which will probably be implemented for…

Thanks for the references!

I personally work offline for a fair bit (personally more productive that way, and I'm also traveling plenty for work). So I kinda like the mbsync & maildir indirection (although I do hate the lack of NOTIFY, and some other imap inefficiencies around not supporting QRESYNC etc).

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Post by microcolonel »

ddevault wrote: post #23
pmoriarty wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"You can set your EDITOR to emacs and replace aerc's default keybindings with a more emacs-inspired set." I appreciate the suggestion, but unfortunately that's not even remotely adequate. By integration I mean exposing every single function and UI element of the client to Emacs, so that they can be bound, wrapped and extended as needed. Ideally, these functions would be written in eLisp, so they themselves could be m…

I'm not ignorant of how emacs works - I was just giving you a cheeky response to your cheeky comment.

You can also say that Gnus is slow, if you want to be extra cheeky. As currently configured, opening gnus on my (admittedly a bit large) Maildir takes more than an hour (no, really, I'm not joking); of course, once it's up I dare not close it, and that works out fine for me.

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Post by badosu »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #26
megous wrote: post #24

It can't do maildir. I tried mdir:/// maildir:/// file:/// and /. grep -R maildir of the code returns nothing. So I guess, using it on local mail is a no go. Sad. I tried it only because this was advertised, only to be disappointed. It's better to not advertise features you don't have. Or at least state what features you have instead of mixing what you have and have not into a feature list at random. It's also far cr…

There's a big red disclaimer on this page that says the feature list is a bit wishful, and the latest version is only 0.1.0. The docs (man pages, start with man aerc) only document implemented features, you may want to start there. Here's the ticket for maildir support: https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc2/16 Several people have expressed interest in working on this, I expect we'll see it for 0.2.0. As far as configura…

I was looking at the git page and wondering where I could see discussion on features/bugs etc, I did not find it and was a bit frustrated.

I found out reading this comment that not only it has a todo page but it works great! Not sure if it's a design choice but perhaps making the resources accessible in a single page (e.g. like a project home) would be something worth of consideration.

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Post by cik »

elagost wrote: post #31

I'd leave Thunderbird in a heartbeat if I could find a contact/calendar syncing terminal client as well. Any recommendations?

I currently use Thunderbird for mail, and MineTime for calendar. I found the Thunderbird calendar integrations (5 calendars) way too flaky.

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Post by ncmncm »

ncmncm wrote: post #2

I saw the title [was: "World's Best Email Client"] and thought, "yeah, sure". But WOW. It's the e-mail of my dreams. Take my money, damn you! EDIT: I may have been seduced by the clicky keyboard noises in the video. But no! Is good! EDIT2: I forgive you for Wayland.

I notice aerc is not on the list of projects to donate for...

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Post by 64738 »

0vermorrow wrote: post #13

Love the idea, and I really will give this a go as a daily driver. Just a small feedback: I had trouble with one of the requirements -> scdoc, didn't know what exactly that is (Googling didn't help), so might be worth to provide a direct link in the README.md to https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc/

Thank you, I had the same problem. Apt couldn't find it in my Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS install, and when I googled it I'm pretty sure "South Carolina Department of Corrections" wasn't what I was looking for. ;) So, thank you for the link.

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Post by ddevault »

ncmncm wrote: post #47
ncmncm wrote: post #2

I saw the title [was: "World's Best Email Client"] and thought, "yeah, sure". But WOW. It's the e-mail of my dreams. Take my money, damn you! EDIT: I may have been seduced by the clicky keyboard noises in the video. But no! Is good! EDIT2: I forgive you for Wayland.

I notice aerc is not on the list of projects to donate for...

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