6/16/2023 0 Comments Mailspring spam filter* The visual component of HTML mail is irrelevant 99% of the time. * Multi-account support works well (currently have it hooked up to my personal and work accounts simultaneously) * Notifications can be configured to do pretty much whatever you want (by invoking a command when new mail arrives) ![]() It's the best tool I can think of for dealing with large quantities of mail. I'd really recommend you take another look at Mutt, or Alpine if you're more into pico/nano than vim as editors. If you're looking to consolidate your email the best way is imapfilter I use this LUA script (this is the Jinja2 template so obviously you'll need to substitute the portions in Spam']) * PGP support, WKD, OPENPGPKEY, AutoCrypt etc. looks pretty healthy, though they say their CalDav support is experimental. Is this a hangover from the Outlook/Google design. What's the usecase for that? MacOSX has Mail.app and iCal.app separate. * Calendars I don't think need to strictly be in a mail client. Ideally such a client would benefit from as well I could not go back to having a non-centralized address book. * Be able to sync my contacts from CardDav. This is really annoying because you end up with and in the wrong places and have to always convert back to "Body Text". * Be able to use markdown, ideally something like pandoc, in thunderbird I use Markdown Here but that requires you to edit in rich text mode and then convert to markdown. * Be able to use Vim for editing (one of my major gripes in Thunderbird ![]() Really there are only 3 requirements for me: so maybe that or meli might be the solution for me. I was quite excited by Drew Devault's aerc client. I have been migrating away from Google and this is a handy ability (which thunderbird has). Mutt typically had issues with multiple accounts and moving emails between the two. However can we really do better than Mutt. I looked at this video about mutt which made me think about making a switch. I couldn't agree more, and for the same reasons you've mentioned I end up coming back to Thunderbird, even though I'd like a TUI client. I sometimes feel that alpine/pine doesn't get as much love as other TUI email clients. It has really really good documentation available in a context sensitive manner. It has working support for signing and encrypting messages, decent support of reply templates. It supports standard features such as choosing your own editor to compose emails (default is nano, which is a successor of pico, which was the editor used by pine), filtering a message to a program (for example, to git apply patch), filter a message before sending, multiple ways to display threading, and so on. You can view html emails using w3m or lynx or whatever. The keybindings are relatively simple (n for next and p for previous) but the arrow keys and mouse also work. It had a single maintainer who disappeared, someone else took over who disappeared, and now there is a new maintainer. I have 4 email accounts and I can seamlessly move messages between them. I get a bell on my terminal when a new email comes and my desktop environment (i3m) shows a highlighted xterm and a highlighted workspace so that I know that I have a new message. I have been using alpine (re-alpine before that and alpine before that and pine before that) for about 20 years and it ticks most of your check boxes: Maybe I should fork Mailspring, strip out the account garbage and just tolerate Electron, but that'd create a whole bunch of maintenance work I just can't take on right now. Which is beginning to seem rather silly, but it's still my experience. ![]() Overall when I want my mail client to "just work" I've found them to be piss poor compared to Thunderbird. HTML mail is used widely now as most people use webmail and just doesn't map well to console applications Archaic keybindings, or perhaps I'm just too lazy to learn them Single maintainer that could disappear at any time The TUI clients I've looked at all seem to suffer from some mix of: I'm willing to pay, someone please give me a decent cross platform alternative with a GUI, ideally a proper, non-electron one. Maybe I'm just going to be stuck with eM Client or Outlook and using RDP to check my email. Here I sit with 7 accounts in Thunderbird. I didn't think this was a big ask but I guess now that most people just use a single Gmail account the market for such things is dwindling. right up until it asked me to make an account for use with my own IMAP servers - no thanks. I was having some search issues the other day and I looked at alternatives - the options were basically Outlook, Claws Mail which is ugly as sin, eM Client which is Windows only and Mailspring which actually looked pretty good. I'm still using Thunderbird, which is barely maintained for a decent standalone IMAP client - it's beginning to feel pretty ridiculous.
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