Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
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Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
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#2> This option is really simple: It allows us to override automatic sorting for certain folders. The specified folders are shown at the top of the folder list in the provided order. The rest are sorted alphabetically. This option should be in every email client. Sadly, I’ve never seen it in a graphical client (Thunderbird/Outlook) before.
Isn’t this just favorites? I’ve used them for over a decade in Outlook to keep some folders above others. It’s not configurable by a file, sure, but the feature is there.
Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
#3I miss using a TUI for mail but it looks like they haven’t really solved the most important reason I don’t, which is rendering HTML emails.
Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
#4> This option is really simple: It allows us to override automatic sorting for certain folders. The specified folders are shown at the top of the folder list in the provided order. The rest are sorted alphabetically. This option should be in every email client. Sadly, I’ve never seen it in a graphical client (Thunderbird/Outlook) before. Isn’t this just favorites? I’ve used them for over a decade in Outlook to keep s…
In Outlook, adding a folder to "favorites" creates another reference to the folder in the favorites list; it doesn't change the all-folders view under the account.
Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
#5> This option is really simple: It allows us to override automatic sorting for certain folders. The specified folders are shown at the top of the folder list in the provided order. The rest are sorted alphabetically. This option should be in every email client. Sadly, I’ve never seen it in a graphical client (Thunderbird/Outlook) before. Isn’t this just favorites? I’ve used them for over a decade in Outlook to keep s…
In Outlook, adding a folder to "favorites" creates another reference to the folder in the favorites list; it doesn't change the all-folders view under the account.
Don't have my work laptop at hand, but I'm quite sure that you can manually order regular folders as well as favorites by simple drag and drop. In our current version at least.
Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
#6aerc is really weird in the sense of being designed as a client, not storing the mails on your computer. Which has some performance implications and limitations. Though you can have local mail too, really felt like a second-class feature when I looked. But to be fair it has been a long time since I looked at it.
Given the above I'm really surprised that IMAP doesn't work better than it does. Often gets disconnected and I have to restart to get back to it.
Also have trouble with shortcut overlapping in neovim and aerc.
All in all, not super happy. I could maybe give it a second chance and see what I've missed in my setup, but currently more hopeful about neomutt.
Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
#7I miss using a TUI for mail but it looks like they haven’t really solved the most important reason I don’t, which is rendering HTML emails.
You can configure aerc to pass the email contents through an intermediate program depending on the MIME type. I believe it renders HTML through w3m by default or something like that. Of course it isn't full rendering with CSS and whatnot, but it is pretty good for most mails.
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#8I miss using a TUI for mail but it looks like they haven’t really solved the most important reason I don’t, which is rendering HTML emails.
Emacs (even on the TTY), can do a decent job of rendering markup using it's built in EWW browser. Works pretty well, at least for most of the content I'm looking for.
Using it with Notmuch or mu4e is not the easiest thing to do, but it works pretty solidly.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Outlook, adding a folder to "favorites" creates another reference to the folder in the favorites list; it doesn't change the all-folders view under the account.
Don't have my work laptop at hand, but I'm quite sure that you can manually order regular folders as well as favorites by simple drag and drop. In our current version at least.
It is indeed possible to reorder the regular folders as well. It's just not a favorites specific feature.
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#10I might be missing something but why would you want to use a terminal interface when a GUI is so much easier?