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Re: Mutt 2.2.0

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Post by nextos »

leephillips wrote: post #5

I don’t know what I’d do without Mutt. It’s the only really good email client I’ve ever encountered. Just read the release notes in the OA: the attention to detail and concern with standards. Thank you so much for the work you do on Mutt. https://lwn.net/Articles/837960/

Mutt is great, I've used it for many years and I love the interface.

A good alternative, if you are looking, is Notmuch. In fact, the Notmuch engine (there's also a Notmuch Emacs mode, and many other frontends) is frequently used in conjunction with Mutt and also powers NeoMutt.

Re: Mutt 2.2.0

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Post by rjzzleep »

I think it's always worth mentioning neomutt[1] when mutt comes up these days. Development is fairly active [2] and a lot of patches that people have been working on over the years have been merged, like the various header compression techniques, sidebar, search and unified inbox with notmuch etc.

[1] https://neomutt.org/feature

[2] https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt

Re: Mutt 2.2.0

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Post by fouc »

I sometimes wonder if mutt is still pg's email client of choice. And if he's still using his bayesian spam filter.

Re: Mutt 2.2.0

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Post by rjzzleep »

nulbyte wrote: post #6
eu wrote: post #3

I’d love to see a setup where I could keep the emails on a Linux box in the house (the messages are fetched regularly from the “real” email server), you know what I mean? Sending would probably be easier ( use a real smtp server)…

I use mbsync (formerly isync) to synchronize multiple external mailboxes to a local Maildir store. I use it with mu4e, but it'd work fine with mutt or any other client that supports Maildir. https://isync.sourceforge.io/

I second this. I used offlineimap for a long time, but isync(mbsync) is soooooo much faster at syncing mail.

Re: Mutt 2.2.0

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Post by hestefisk »

Nice, thank you for your hard work maintaining this. I love mutt, use it as my daily driver. I hope we can find a new maintainer soon. I definitely would put my hand up if it weren’t for the fact that I am not very good in C.

Re: Mutt 2.2.0

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Post by iib »

leephillips wrote: post #5

I don’t know what I’d do without Mutt. It’s the only really good email client I’ve ever encountered. Just read the release notes in the OA: the attention to detail and concern with standards. Thank you so much for the work you do on Mutt. https://lwn.net/Articles/837960/

Is there a way you deal with multiple email accounts? I found this to be the hardest thing when using mutt (neomutt). Clunky macros to change accounts.

The second hardest thing was actually streamlining using it with gmail accounts.

Re: Mutt 2.2.0

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Post by leephillips »

iib wrote: post #16
leephillips wrote: post #5

I don’t know what I’d do without Mutt. It’s the only really good email client I’ve ever encountered. Just read the release notes in the OA: the attention to detail and concern with standards. Thank you so much for the work you do on Mutt. https://lwn.net/Articles/837960/

Is there a way you deal with multiple email accounts? I found this to be the hardest thing when using mutt (neomutt). Clunky macros to change accounts. The second hardest thing was actually streamlining using it with gmail accounts.

I just have all my email forwarded to the same account, so I don’t have any good tips for that. When I need to check another account directly I just open a new Mutt. Gmail has an imap interface.
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