Does anyone use alpine?
Yes, and it works so well that I cannot imagine what the benefits of Aerc could have over it. I guess I'll have to do a comparison !
Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
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Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use POP3, and only wait for mutt when changing to a folder (4s/100k mails). Then everything is basically instantaneous. But yeah, I don't know about mutt IMAP performance, as I never used it. I've only configured a local IMAP server over my maildir to be able to try aerc. I have no clue why aerc is taking 100-200ms to load a single message (as you see in the video) from the localhost. Maybe naggle (is it even used…
I'm guessing the main problem is that I can't cancel an IMAP request once it goes out. When you scroll down, one at a time, through all of the messages like that, I have to wait for ones that scrolled offscreen long ago before I can read out the details for the ones onscreen now. Adding an option to fetch all headers when opening a folder might be wise, or just fetching the offscreen headers in the background while i…
> IMAP has a thread extension I intend to put to good use for this purpose.
I didn't know. Very nice.
Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#83My least favorite email begins with a +Russell at the top, meaning that there's been a long email thread that I haven't been a part of, and now I've been pulled in. The text below that is your standard mess of email text: 1) It's in reverse chronological order starting at the bottom. 2) Each message has 4 or 5 lines of "to", "from", "cc", "subject" and "date" in between. 3) Previous messages might or might not be rep…
The solution is to have the thread forwarded as message/rfc822 attachments instead of full quote madness.
Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#84As another point in the space, have you looked at nmh? https://www.nongnu.org/nmh/
Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#85What about full text search? This feature has brought me to from mutt to sup to alot: https://alot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
notmuch support is planned! It shouldn't be too hard, if an interested user were to take ownership over the feature it could probably ship in 0.2.0. Want to help?
Since the client is written in Go, I believe this could be easily done with https://blevesearch.com
Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#86Is it groundbreaking to display mail with an external pager or to pipe it to filters? These were/are core features of elm, from 1986.
Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#87What the TL;DR; difference between Aerc and mutt?
Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
notmuch support is planned! It shouldn't be too hard, if an interested user were to take ownership over the feature it could probably ship in 0.2.0. Want to help?
Since the client is written in Go, I believe this could be easily done with https://blevesearch.com
Eh, I would rather use notmuch than develop my own index from scratch. Keep it email, yo.
Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#89I haven't dug too deep into the features or how this works yet, but it's very exciting to see any kind of movement in this space at all. I've spent a lot of time configuring mutt just the way I like it, but I'd throw it all away in a heartbeat for a good, modern alternative. My wishlist:
* A daemon that pulls new mail from my IMAP servers to my local maildir as soon as it arrives. (I know mutt has an IMAP mode, and it looks like that's aerc's primary mode of operation, too, but I like to have a local copy of my entire mail archive.)
* Rendering plain text markdown into multipart/html emails. I love me some plaintext, but no one else in my life even knows what a terminal is. 80-char lines are too short for desktop displays and too long for small phones (leading to awful linebreaks), which makes me the guy whose emails never look right.
Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#90Is it groundbreaking to display mail with an external pager or to pipe it to filters? These were/are core features of elm, from 1986.
IMO the key innovation is that aerc does it with an embedded terminal emulator, tmux-style. This allows you to keep using the client for other things while reading or composing emails.