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I wonder how good it is with wide width characters (in CJK languages). Handling them in a terminal is rather tricky, and I haven't seen anything that's good except ones that are developed by the actual users of the language.
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.
Seems like a good patch to implement a command that saves to a temporary file and opens with provided program, will certainly follow development, great work!
How does this compare to sup / mutt / alpine / astroid ?
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>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.
It seems ':pipe' sends the data to stdin, I was trying to see a pdf file and the programs I tried (evince, mupdf) do not seem to support this (or perhaps usage is different?). Seems like a good patch to implement a command that saves to a temporary file and opens with provided program, will certainly follow development, great work!
How does this compare to mutt?
Aerc is very new and written in Go. I tested it on my 100 thousnand mail ARM linux mailing list archive, accessed via localhost dovecot IMAP server, to see the best case performance, but it doesn't look good, atm.
It looks like this when I scroll through the archive: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/cjitwkaxpsypgcfdvncr.mp4
It's not really comparable to mutt, yet. The performance is slow, and it doesn't support threads, which is a must for MUA.
I dunno what it is about the screencast, but it takes _forever_ to load. Any chance you could upload to Youtube or something so that I can actually watch the thing? EDIT: I'm getting about 20kb/s download from sr.ht where the video is hosted. Definitely not an issue with my connection, as I can download other files right now at 2Mb/s.
EDIT: Here it is: https://streamable.com/3ysv9
How does this compare to mutt?
Mutt/Neomutt is much more mature and has more features and better performance. (fantastic threads support, fast and very flexible filtering, etc.) Aerc is very new and written in Go. I tested it on my 100 thousnand mail ARM linux mailing list archive, accessed via localhost dovecot IMAP server, to see the best case performance, but it doesn't look good, atm. It looks like this when I scroll through the archive: https…
Yes, aerc is not yet as featureful or mature as mutt, but it definitely does not have inferior performance.