Mutt email client 25 years old
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Mutt email client 25 years old
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Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
#2I can't imagine doing email without mutt, without all the keyboard shortcuts I have, and without vim as the editor. Thank you mutt. Just what an email client should be. I wish there was better search support but that's about it.
Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
#3I can't imagine doing email without mutt, without all the keyboard shortcuts I have, and without vim as the editor. Thank you mutt. Just what an email client should be. I wish there was better search support but that's about it.
I imagine you already know this, but you should consider notmuch for searching within mutt (well, neomutt). It's pretty great.
Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
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Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
#5I can't imagine doing email without mutt, without all the keyboard shortcuts I have, and without vim as the editor. Thank you mutt. Just what an email client should be. I wish there was better search support but that's about it.
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.
Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
#6I remember the mind-blowing switch from pine to mutt. Then, a few years later, gmail, which has to be about 20 years old or so.
I haven't used much mutt since.
Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
#7I can't imagine doing email without mutt, without all the keyboard shortcuts I have, and without vim as the editor. Thank you mutt. Just what an email client should be. I wish there was better search support but that's about it.
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.
I’ve had decent success using lynx to dump HTML to text.
Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
#8I can't imagine doing email without mutt, without all the keyboard shortcuts I have, and without vim as the editor. Thank you mutt. Just what an email client should be. I wish there was better search support but that's about it.
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; copiousoutputRe: Mutt email client 25 years old
#9Thank you Mutt (and also NeoMutt for pushing the envelope), you have been my e-mail client now for the last four years and as an academic that spends a significant amount of time reading and responding to e-mail it is (somehow?) the best option out there.
Setup:
* Mutt (I had slowdowns with NeoMutt)
* Vim with four e-mail specific lines in the `vimrc`
* fdm for retrieval and delivery rules
* Syncthing for synchronisation between machines (it is just files! although ~1,000,000 of them…)
* tmux to give me a single horizontal split so that I can browse and compose at the same time
* Notmuch for search
* Lynx to beat text/html into shape
* a tiny snooze shell script of my own coupled with an equally tiny unsnooze shell script that runs every few minutes on a box that is on 24/7
That is it, although I have to admit that I should clean up my `muttrc` at this point as it is an outright mess. There are always more tweaks one could perform, my next one probably being figuring out tagging and then sending multiple mails to the snooze script. But one has to exercise a bit of self restraint or get less rather than more work done due to “over tweaking”.
Gripes? Well, the configuration is very arcane at times and monolithic; you wish you had a more modern, scriptable, and modular interface. If so, you could probably cut down the time it takes to get something working by more than half. I also suffer occasional CPU spikes, perhaps due to some weird interaction with Syncthing when both monitor directories.
Other than that, it is very smooth and pleasant sailing. HTML e-mails in particular hardly if ever pose a challenge after I got Lynx into the mix.
Re: Mutt email client 25 years old
#10Earlier 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
The really annoying thing is that some mail is multipart where the text/plain is just “sorry, your email client does not support html”. Yeah thanks a lot but it does, it’s just I have it set to prefer text/plain, because I don’t want to look at the html dump version unless I have to.
If those people had simply sent only text/html and not a useless text/plain that only says that kind of stuff then everything would have worked fine.
Stuff like that makes me want to quit using mutt, and no fault of mutt mind you.
But laziness has kept me to using mutt for reading my self hosted mail for many years now.