Honest question - Why use interfaces like this, but not regular HTML client?
Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails
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#12After testing many clients I learnt to stop worrying and just use Mail app.
I feel you. I now just use email in my web browser via the respective providers recommended website, aka mail.google.com, microsoft.office365.exchange.email or whatever it is they are calling it these days.
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#13Honest question - Why use interfaces like this, but not regular HTML client?
I don't have much knowledge regarding mail but I can think of two reasons.
First is the use of mailboxes if your mail provider does not provide you with an IMAP server to connect to in which case you'll use a client like mutt to manage your mails.
Second one is the accesibility through the terminal could be reduced with HTML sites. If I want to access my email through a headless server using lynx or similar having to refresh the website to check new mails, or even composing them might be difficult.
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#14I still use mutt on a daily basis. Being able to select emails using regular expressions is super useful. IMAPFilter is also simple and powerful to quickly sort email.
What do you use to fetch email? mbsync keeps messing up the UID of emails with gmail.
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#15After testing many clients I learnt to stop worrying and just use Mail app.
I'm here too.
I've used many, many different clients over the last few decades (yes, including Linux `mail`). I have to use Outlook at work, and I have to use my providers' web clients on my Windows gaming PC, but on all my other devices I use Mail.app.
I just... don't ever use all the features of the other clients, or don't like some of the behavior they have, or any of that. For a long time I would get excited about new email clients and try them out right away, but no more.
I dunno if it's just that I'm getting old, or if I just don't care as much, or both, or something else.
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#16This seems really nice. I wonder how it handles accounts with two-factor authentication, sms and yubikey.
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#17After testing many clients I learnt to stop worrying and just use Mail app.
I'm here too. I've used many, many different clients over the last few decades (yes, including Linux `mail`). I have to use Outlook at work, and I have to use my providers' web clients on my Windows gaming PC, but on all my other devices I use Mail.app. I just... don't ever use all the features of the other clients, or don't like some of the behavior they have, or any of that. For a long time I would get excited abou…
I use many features of Thunderbird. And it works fine with outlook, even including calendaring, with the Owl plugin. It is a paid plugin, but it makes life much better.
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#18Honest question - Why use interfaces like this, but not regular HTML client?
There are many choices for email client interfaces. HTML for email does not have a good reputation among hackers. After all, email can be considered an ancient technology and is historically based on plain text - HTML breaks not only the philosophy but also many of the tools developed around email.
I have found a sweet spot for an email client between a pure CLI and a full-featured (HTML) GUI client - I use Emacs Gnus, which takes full advantage of Emacs' text-based interface. As always with Emacs, the learning curve is a bit steep at first, but the rewards can be reaped afterwards.
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#19After testing many clients I learnt to stop worrying and just use Mail app.
Mail causes me to procrastinate so much, and I have no idea why. I use icloud everything, so I wanted my mail there as well, but after 12-13 months I switched back to FastMail because their UX is subtly better suited to quickly sorting through mail for me. And fwiw I'm afaik not using any FastMail features that Mail doesn't have.
I don't mean this in the way that Client A > Client B, but I have spent a fair amount of thought on this, and I have not been aple to pinpoint exactly what characteristics makes the difference for me, which I find to be interesting in itself.
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#20Neat. I used and loved “mh” in college, but that was before html email became prevalent. It was beautiful to have different commands and treat emails as individual files. Unfortunately mh was grotty old C code and just couldn’t keep up (IMHO) with how we use email today. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System
> I used and loved “mh” in college
Same and also `nmh`. Loved how you could combine the various parts to make your own tools.