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Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt

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Re: Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt

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Post by aduitsis »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #9
kleiba wrote: post #6

The problem is the HTML Emails I annoyingly get sent by non-tech people.

With mutt, you can tell it to pass HTML through an external program (like a text mode browser) to render to plain text. Not immediately obvious if meli supports that, but it is at least tractable.

Elinks for rendering html mail and antiword for rendering word documents inside the mutt message view.

Re: Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt

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Post by zimpenfish »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #19
bugmen0t wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It shouldn’t be. IMAP doesn’t have to download all of them.

Oh, that's fair. I was questioning the reasonableness of having 17k emails but you're right, the software should be able to support it.

Oh, it's a nonsense, definitely, but it only gets cleaned out every 6 months or thereabouts and I've not yet translated the rules in my cleaning script to Sieve rules to do it automatically.

Re: Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt

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Post by jll29 »

mxuribe wrote: post #3

My very first email account (when starting university in the early 90s) was via Pine on a unix machine; and i loved it! Sure, the excitement of "a new tech thing" was there, but also the fast, productive simplicity of it all: i can send a message to someone anywhere in the world quite easily! Years later when i started getting into linux as my personal machine/daily driver, i tried using mutt. Mutt didn't stick for m…

I agree Pine was a cute little program, and it served many people well at the time.

But the most important functions for me today in an email client are 1. fast search and 2. auto-complete of contacts and Pine/Alpine was lacking there.

(Gmail has great search but its UX overall is lacking - I find it confusing in many ways and it suppresses important information (e.g. headers, sometimes even an e-mail's subject line). It would be nice to have a non-cloud email client with such a fast search.)

Re: Meli – email client in the terminal, in the spirit of mutt

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Post by seszett »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #19
bugmen0t wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It shouldn’t be. IMAP doesn’t have to download all of them.

Oh, that's fair. I was questioning the reasonableness of having 17k emails but you're right, the software should be able to support it.

What are you doing with your old emails? Do you delete them? Or have you found a method to archive them that produces few folders with few emails in each and that works consistently over the decades?

Because I haven't, and having everything in one folder works just fine with the clients I use.

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