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0 pointsnextos9y ago0 comments

I am a very loyal mutt user. Coupled with mbsync (for offline imap) and notmuch (for indexing, threading and address completion) I think it's a great MUA.

I obsessively measure wakeups/s in powertop for every application I use, and the above setup is very good.

If you want to try other things you can look into the mutt-kz fork (which replaces internal search commands with notmuch).

There is also a notmuch curses client, but I find mutt+notmuch superior.

Mu is a notmuch alternative worth considering. Their emacs client is excellent.

Finally, also if you use emacs, gnus is perhaps the most powerful email client ever. Steep learning curve, though. It's a bit different to everything else, as gnus has been built as a news reader. It treats mail as news, but this has some great advantages I think, as long as you can adapt your mindset. Also Org integration.

Gnus is the only thing that might make me switch away from mutt.

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NoGravitas9y ago

Gnus is unbeatable for reading mailing lists -- it basically lets you take the many optimizations and workflows developed in various newsreaders for managing large Usenet newsgroups of which you only want to read a small subset, and apply them to mailing lists. For reading mail other than big mailing lists, it's a little awkward. I used it as my main email client for years, but have drifted away.

nextosOP9y ago

What have you replaced gnus with?

NoGravitas9y ago

Using email less, honestly. Because I can't get to my home email from work, I've largely stopped following most of the mailing lists I was on, just catching up periodically. I've played with mu4e, and I'd probably use it more if I spent more time on a computer and network under my full control.

For my reduced email needs, I mostly use K-9 Mail (Android) and self-hosted RainLoop (web). For work mail I use Outlook.

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0 pointsnextos9y ago0 comments

I am a very loyal mutt user. Coupled with mbsync (for offline imap) and notmuch (for indexing, threading and address completion) I think it's a great MUA.

I obsessively measure wakeups/s in powertop for every application I use, and the above setup is very good.

If you want to try other things you can look into the mutt-kz fork (which replaces internal search commands with notmuch).

There is also a notmuch curses client, but I find mutt+notmuch superior.

Mu is a notmuch alternative worth considering. Their emacs client is excellent.

Gnus is the only thing that might make me switch away from mutt.

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NoGravitas9y ago

nextosOP9y ago

What have you replaced gnus with?

NoGravitas9y ago

For my reduced email needs, I mostly use K-9 Mail (Android) and self-hosted RainLoop (web). For work mail I use Outlook.

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