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Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Post by babuskov »

csomar wrote: post #132
microcolonel wrote: post #42

Gnus has been great for me, but after about 40k+ (I stopped looking at the counts actually) messages in my Maildir, performance suffers for me (that is, if I start gnus from scratch it takes more than an hour and a half to open, with my entire Maildir in the page cache, and a huge amount of extremely fast memory). Notmuch doesn't seem to help at all, or if it would, it's hard to tell if it's configured correctly.

40k email? That sounds too much if it is for a single person. If you get 10 email per days for 10 years, you'd not get to 40k (35.6k). My suggestion will be to clean your mailbox instead of finding a new client.

> If you get 10 email per days for 10 years

I recall times (mid 2000's) when I was active in a bunch of open-source communities and mailing lists were the main way to discuss. Getting around 50 e-mail per day was normal.

I kept a lot of those discussions in my e-mail client for later reference, because the mailing list website had sub-par search function compared to Mozilla e-mail client I used at the time.

It's possible he's using it as an e-mail archive for mailing lists or something like that.

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Post by marttt »

Nice, looking forward to trying it out. Other similar projects worth mentioning:

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze - As the author says, "Unix utilities to deal with maildir".

https://github.com/aligrudi/neatmail - A noninteractive client with ex-like commands

http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/mother/ - for Plan9 people.

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Post by marmaduke »

stevekemp wrote: post #117
rlue wrote: post #89

I haven't dug too deep into the features or how this works yet, but it's very exciting to see any kind of movement in this space at all. I've spent a lot of time configuring mutt just the way I like it, but I'd throw it all away in a heartbeat for a good, modern alternative. My wishlist: * A daemon that pulls new mail from my IMAP servers to my local maildir as soon as it arrives. (I know mutt has an IMAP mode, and i…

I came up with my own mutt-alike, written with Lua for real scripting. Sadly it seems these projects are pretty niche, they're also damn hard to write. I spent a lot of time fighting with malformed MIME messages, etc. Then adding on GPG-support, and handling the UI, all becomes a huge time-sync. Still I now have a client that I love, even if nobody else does! https://lumail.org/

Doesn’t claws have a reusable library for that sort of thing?

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Post by necovek »

I find it funny that the first thing on their web site for a text-mode email client is a video screencast: as someone who likes spending time in text interfaces (terminal or emacs), it's exactly for the reasons videos are bad.

You can't skip-through videos to get to the part you care about which is obvious in a textual format (and it's obvious if it's even there). You can't copy and paste stuff. You usually have to have sound on to understand what's going on.

Sorry for ranting a bit about this modern tendency to record videos instead of write text :)

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Post by meitham »

ernst_klim wrote: post #140
meitham wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am the opposite of you, I prefer all my email to be avaialble offline to me. I use offlineimap to mirror my remote IMAP folders, and usually read them with mutt, but occasinaly read them in GUI emacs where the terminal does not support RTL, such as Arabic emails.

>I am the opposite of you, I prefer all my email to be avaialble offline to me. Even spam or mails you want to delete before reading? There are dozens of mails I want to delete or put to the archive folder before reading, thus this feature is annoying me. And when I want to backup mail, I use offlineimap explicitly. Besides, I use mu4e of 3 separate machines, and on each I have to keep a local copy of all my mails, e…

I selectively choose which IMAP dirs to sync. ``Spam`` isn't one of them. I do however sync my ``Archive`` or ``ALLAMIL`` dir as I often need to quickly grep (notmuch) for messages wihout having network connectivity.

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Post by epse »

mbreese wrote: post #103
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Easy, you can change what folder it treats as sent. It doesn't have a trash bin (and it won't) or draft support (and it will) yet.

Out of curiosity, why won’t there be a Trash bin? What about an Archive folder?

You can just make an archive folder and copy emails there, or set up a shortcut to archive emails.

Re: Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

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Post by notinventedhear »

Very excited by the prospect of a modern terminal-mail client that is easier to use!

After following the README: this is clearly not ready/designed for wide consumption - the recipe neglects to mention how to install a custom doc-tool called scdoc (by the same author?) that is required to build it - and there are no pre-built binaries (that I can see).

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