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Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
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Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#132Gnus 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.
40k email? That sounds too much if it is for a single person. If you get 10 email per days for 10 years, you'd not get to 40k (35.6k).
My suggestion will be to clean your mailbox instead of finding a new client.
Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#133For those of you already using emacs, this mirrors my workflow in mu4e. Here are some screenshots[0], and here is a guide on how to set up mu4e[1]. [0] https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html [1] http://cachestocaches.com/2017/3/complete-guide-email-emacs-...
My main concern with mu4e is that I have to fetch all the emails on my local machine. That's terrible, hope one day there will be a mu4e-like client for emacs with a thunderbird-like workflow, aka fetch in a lazy manner, before reading.
Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#134I'd leave Thunderbird in a heartbeat if I could find a contact/calendar syncing terminal client as well. Any recommendations?
I use Khard for contacts and khal for calendar.
Neither handle syncing, so I use vdirsyncer for that (you can use anything you like or just go local only).
https://github.com/scheibler/khard
Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#135I'd leave Thunderbird in a heartbeat if I could find a contact/calendar syncing terminal client as well. Any recommendations?
Have a look at vdirsyncer, khard, and khal. This in combination with mbsyc is my CLI PIM sync :)
Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
offlineimap is cron-driven though, so it doesn't fetch mail "as soon as it arrives". I don't know that any offline-sync daemons uses IDLE though. isync / mbsync doesn't seem to either.
I use a systemd timer to handle periodic calls to offlineimap, and that works really well compared to a corn-based work flow.
systemd timers are a cron-based workflow.
A cron-based workflow is when you periodically check for work to do rather than get notified that there's work to do.
Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#137For those of you already using emacs, this mirrors my workflow in mu4e. Here are some screenshots[0], and here is a guide on how to set up mu4e[1]. [0] https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html [1] http://cachestocaches.com/2017/3/complete-guide-email-emacs-...
My main concern with mu4e is that I have to fetch all the emails on my local machine. That's terrible, hope one day there will be a mu4e-like client for emacs with a thunderbird-like workflow, aka fetch in a lazy manner, before reading.
I am the opposite of you, I prefer all my email to be avaialble offline to me. I use offlineimap to mirror my remote IMAP folders, and usually read them with mutt, but occasinaly read them in GUI emacs where the terminal does not support RTL, such as Arabic emails.
Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#138I miss pine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_%28email_client%29
It’s still around: https://repo.or.cz/alpine.git
I've been using it (Pine, the Alpine) as my primary mail client since 1998.
Months after i started using it, someone suggested i try mutt. I'm definitely going to, but i haven't got round to it yet.
Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
offlineimap is cron-driven though, so it doesn't fetch mail "as soon as it arrives". I don't know that any offline-sync daemons uses IDLE though. isync / mbsync doesn't seem to either.
offlineimap does have IDLE support. It's known to exhibit hard-to-reproduce bugs, though.
> IDLE support is incomplete and experimental. Bugs may be encountered.
That's not "have IDLE support".
Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
My main concern with mu4e is that I have to fetch all the emails on my local machine. That's terrible, hope one day there will be a mu4e-like client for emacs with a thunderbird-like workflow, aka fetch in a lazy manner, before reading.
I am the opposite of you, I prefer all my email to be avaialble offline to me. I use offlineimap to mirror my remote IMAP folders, and usually read them with mutt, but occasinaly read them in GUI emacs where the terminal does not support RTL, such as Arabic emails.
>I am the opposite of you, I prefer all my email to be avaialble offline to me.
Even spam or mails you want to delete before reading? There are dozens of mails I want to delete or put to the archive folder before reading, thus this feature is annoying me. And when I want to backup mail, I use offlineimap explicitly.
Besides, I use mu4e of 3 separate machines, and on each I have to keep a local copy of all my mails, even mails I've read already.