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Yes
Then it 'supports' exchange. \o/
It can but whether it does depends on your local IT. Which means it doesn't.
Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
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#262Crashed on first email I read from Gmail. Also, I had to enable "less secure access" in Gmail for aerc to work. Will try again after a few months.
"less secure" nonsense is required for mutt as well.
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#263I really, really like that the editor is embedded within the mail client. The need to shell out to vim or whatever is what always kept me from using Mutt, despite loving its UI. aerc isn't quite as colorful or well-laid-out as Mutt but this is very promising. This reminds me a lot of my all-time favorite mail editor, which I miss dearly: GoldED [0] [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldED [1] https://blog.onlime.…
Some color would be nice. (I quite like Irssi's color scheme)
> (I quite like Irssi's color scheme)
Irssi's default color scheme which, incidentally, is the same as Mutt's default. Both can be changed. For example, to a solarized color scheme.
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"The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web" was originally released in 2005 and I'm afraid some of the advice may be stuck there. This advice being among that advice. In 2005 many displays were still 4:3 ratio and this advice more applicable. With modern 16:9 ratio screens 66 character line lengths can seem extremely short and require unnecessary vertical scrolling to view a message with such line length.…
I got typographic education, and the reason we limit line with on paper (think about the biggest newspaper you know), isn’t because the lack of space. I know newspapers that are bigger than any typical display you’d find at a work place. Shorter lines are easier and faster to read and you don’t have to turn your head back and forth every line. This is what German Typographers would call a Bleiwüste, which means “lead…
I think you minimize the impact of scrolling. I fine scrolling to be extremely distracting and annoying when the material could have been presented without requiring scrolling.
On my computer I can resize windows and within some apps such as my email app the display view so that it meets what is optimal for me and not some generalized value. It is not unreasonable to expect the text presented to me to reflow to meet my preference.
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"The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web" was originally released in 2005 and I'm afraid some of the advice may be stuck there. This advice being among that advice. In 2005 many displays were still 4:3 ratio and this advice more applicable. With modern 16:9 ratio screens 66 character line lengths can seem extremely short and require unnecessary vertical scrolling to view a message with such line length.…
> "The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web" was originally released in 2005 and I'm afraid some of the advice may be stuck there. This advice being among that advice. In 2005 many displays were still 4:3 ratio and this advice more applicable. With modern 16:9 ratio screens 66 character line lengths can seem extremely short and require unnecessary vertical scrolling to view a message with such line length…
First of all given the issues with reproducibility within both hard sciences and especially soft sciences I will have to take any results from reading research with a grain of salt until I am able to actually read the specifics of any study. But even for purposes here if I say I accept the results than still the best it can produce regarding a fixed character length is a number which best meets the need of the population as a whole. Which means it might not be the optimal number for me. The great thing about my computer is that I can adjust windows and text view sizes to what I find optimal for myself. It is not unreasonable to expect text adjust to the setting I have chosen as optimal for myself.
Both the expectation that text will reflow and that 66 character line lengths are too short is not unique to me. A quick Google search returns a large number of hits regarding people looking for ways to have either the emails they send or receive be reflowed in their email app.
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'Less secure' access is a choice by google to lock people onto gmail, they choose not to implement random device specific passwords. Better to avoid gmail.
How does it lock you in to gmail? They provide a method by which you can use any mail client if you'd like. Applications can always implement OAuth 2.0, which is pretty open (and is what you'll need to do for other mail providers, not just gmail.)
They took something that worked fine, then broke it after they had the majority of users. There are backwards compatible and secure methods (Like allowing a unique password per device). It is an obvious tactic to force people to choose between gmail web client, and outlook/thunderbird/aerc.
To make matters worse they falsely point the blame at competitors and then people like you defend them.
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#269Is there any way I can see the name of attached files?
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Oh, I used this back in the mid-90s and it was SO good!
If you liked Pine you will probably like Alpine and Pico's successor, Nano. What is the problem with Mutt though? Does Aerc have color or themeing support? Does it have a seperate daemon to talk the email protocols such as IMAP4?
I am a Nano user! Very happy. Vim users be hatin~