I use mutt, mbsync, maildrop, and mblaze, mairix, msmtp, oauth2 with gmail. I have local speed, two way sync, customized email filtering, fast searching, vim editing, and multiple machine freedom. I am happy.
Want to see those configs...
Mutt email client 25 years old
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Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
#42It's probably time for my annual attempt to convert over to using a mutt-based email workflow. I've always been happy with the mutt setup, but I think the majority of my problem is dealing with importing my existing Gmail and (work) Office 365 accounts. Sometimes I've synced the data to my laptop (last time I even had it all running in a container). But I still need to access enough of my email from my phone that I've found the mutt setup too cumbersome, even when using IMAP.
Does anyone have a good setup with multiple accounts or using both mutt with a mobile email client (iOS)?
Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
#43I actually stopped using email for private communication. Most emails are just invoices, confirmations or license keys. Gave up on email few years ago.
Professional I use email for mostly the same and for official trace communication....
Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
i recently switched to Thunderbird from Neomutt + Notmuch + afew + gmailieer combination. I was satisfied mutt's responsiveness, simplicity. But more and more emails are only for html based and its conversion to text is horrendous, I had to view Html at its own format. Then Thunderbird becomes a good candidate.
Similarly to sibling comment, I just set in mailcap: text/html; elinks -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
I also had that But the experience is way worse than reading email in html format. And these days, almost all emails are in html format with pretty basic text/plain in the form of multiformat.
That plain text doesn't have the intention of the composer, for instance, the inline image doesn't show inline and the email context says the figure above.
It is not that business form, but some ppl use colorful format to emphasize some text, which basically gives same text in the email, which makes the reader (in plain text) easily miss that part while skimming.
Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
#45I still use mutt (with https://mailinabox.email/ ) -- and I like how it works, but the annoying thing is html-only emails - finding that unsubscribe link is so hard sometimes.
In such cases I just open the html file in my browser from mutt. Always worked so far.
It worked to me. But honestly annoying. I had to keep opening the browser for half of the emails.
Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
#46It's probably time for my annual attempt to convert over to using a mutt-based email workflow. I've always been happy with the mutt setup, but I think the majority of my problem is dealing with importing my existing Gmail and (work) Office 365 accounts. Sometimes I've synced the data to my laptop (last time I even had it all running in a container). But I still need to access enough of my email from my phone that I'v…
mutt-wizard makes it very easy to setup mutt/neomutt to make it work with gmail and other services. It sets up encrypted offline versions of your mail and sets up most of the mutt environment for you:
https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard
Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Similarly to sibling comment, I just set in mailcap: text/html; elinks -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
I also had that But the experience is way worse than reading email in html format. And these days, almost all emails are in html format with pretty basic text/plain in the form of multiformat. That plain text doesn't have the intention of the composer, for instance, the inline image doesn't show inline and the email context says the figure above . It is not that business form, but some ppl use colorful format to emph…
I'll happily agree that it depends on the mail, and that for emails actually using graphics or fancy formatting, you really do probably need a real graphical interface. Personally, probably 90%+ of my mail can be reasonably rendered in plain text, so this works for most of it and then I use another client for the rest. But for the things it works for, mutt is amazing, so I use it when I can.
Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
#48I use mutt, mbsync, maildrop, and mblaze, mairix, msmtp, oauth2 with gmail. I have local speed, two way sync, customized email filtering, fast searching, vim editing, and multiple machine freedom. I am happy.
I would love absolutely Mutt if it weren't for everyone in the world using html email. I know you can view or strip html emails down to their essentials, but it doesn't render properly enough where I can reply to everything at work and not look like a fool because I'm missing some context. Too bad because Mutt is amazing.
Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
#49For console email, I still use Alpine. Can anyone elaborate on the benefits (if any) of switching to Mutt?
mutt is the best MUA for dealing with large quantities of email. The key to this is the limit/tag workflow. (I wrote it up a few years ago here: https://blog.randomstring.org/2016/09/26/secrets-of-mutt/ ) In brief, you use the limit command to see only the email you are interested in, then use the tag command to do something to those specific messages. Both limit and tag use the same pattern language to specify From,…
> use the limit command to see only the email you are interested in, then use the tag command
Just for clarity: you can just tag without limiting first
> it's easy to integrate an external tool (notmuch, maildir-utils, mairix...)
grep...
Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
#50I so happened to have spent yesterday afternoon figuring out mu4e on Emacs, which I'm new to. Figured out IMAP but not sending yet. Worked with gmail with a very simple config file.
I've tried doing my own mail but it's very hard.