I 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.
I use lynx to render html email. Other people use w3m. It's your choice and it's a solved problem.
Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
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Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
#132I got sick of having five different GMail tabs open (and two non-GMail mail tabs open), so I have been setting up aerc this week, using the Notmuch backend and either lieer (for GMail) or mbsync (for non-GMail) to sync the mail. Its taken maybe a dozen hours to get it set up and get into the flow, but I find it much, much more enjoyable than my previous workflow. Plus, though GMail tabs each took a 100+ MB of memory…
> so I have been setting up aerc this week, using the Notmuch backend I strongly urge people to try notmuch. I switched to it in around 2011 and have never gone back. You don't have to use Emacs as the client. There are plenty of other frontends (including aerc). https://notmuchmail.org/frontends/ alot[1] is probably the most well known among them: https://github.com/pazz/alot
Looks really neat. Thanks.
What do you use to sync your Gmail to local for notmuch to index?
Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
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Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
#134While tui mail clients always seemed appealing to me, I think I realized why something in me resists them.
The terminal is my "meditation space"; it's where I go when I want to focus deeply and do real and work that I enjoy; my playground.
Viewing or writing emails is a chore, just like Slack. I don't want that iny terminal.
Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
#135Aerc has been my daily driver for a long, long time. I use it with IMAP (GMail and other reasons) but its completely usable with local mail directories. - I have redefined the Aerc key mapping with a set of Vim-like keybindings, since I am too old to learn new keybindings. And I bet now I as fast as possible slashing through countless mails… - I configured Aerc to work properly with Gmail and Imapfilter. - I created…
I'm interested in the Gmail integration. Tried it with mutt and decided I didn't want to spend an afternoon figuring it out. 'Sides, I hear that Gmail is phasing out IMAP. :-?
> 'Sides, I hear that Gmail is phasing out IMAP.
Nope. AFAIK, Microsoft is phasing out POP, and maybe GMail, but not IMAP.
If you're using two factor authentication, you need to use an App Password.
Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
#136Aerc has been my daily driver for a long, long time. I use it with IMAP (GMail and other reasons) but its completely usable with local mail directories. - I have redefined the Aerc key mapping with a set of Vim-like keybindings, since I am too old to learn new keybindings. And I bet now I as fast as possible slashing through countless mails… - I configured Aerc to work properly with Gmail and Imapfilter. - I created…
I'm interested in the Gmail integration. Tried it with mutt and decided I didn't want to spend an afternoon figuring it out. 'Sides, I hear that Gmail is phasing out IMAP. :-?
> 'Sides, I hear that Gmail is phasing out IMAP. :-?
I'm so glad I "phased out" Gmail out of my life years ago...
Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
#137I'm kind of locked in to Thunderbird as it manages decades of my mail.
I wonder if one could develop a decent TUI for Thunderbird / its database...
Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
curses and ncurses are specific libraries used while TUI is a more universal term.
But what does it actually stand for? Terminal user interface? Text user interface? I'm not complaining or saying it shouldn't be used, I'd just never seen it before and my initial searches for TUI were all overloaded with other things.
> But what does it actually stand for? Terminal user interface? Text user interface?
Yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface
The Wikipedia page is from 2004, so it's been around a while.
Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
#139I have plumbed the depths of mutt, and I have discovered that, alas, graphical email clients fit my needs better. - Mutt/aerc doesn't support windows, an OS many use by preference or requirement (though I have explored this with mutt[2], it's hard getting anything to work in mailcap on windows) - Doesn't support viewing HTML email, a ubiquitous phenomenon - Doesn't support sending HTML email, which is fine until your…
All fair points. The second and third one can be mitigated by a, say, w3m mailcap entry respectively muttrc entry set send_multipart_alternative_filter=markdown2html.py [1]
[1] https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/blob/master/contrib/markdo...
Re: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
#140I 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.
Rendering HTML emails is fine, IMO, unless you want images. (I use mutt with w3m auto-view.) What’s more difficult is authoring/replying to HTML emails.
Try set send_multipart_alternative_filter=markdown2html.py [0] in your muttrc
[0] https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/blob/master/contrib/markdo...