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Re:Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 ... by a3_nm on Friday October 07, 2011 @09:04PM (#3086673)
notmuch

However, you must be willing to integrate it with other tools (a frontend, something like fetchmail, and something like procmail, etc.).

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Re:Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 ... by feydr on Saturday October 08, 2011 @01:30AM (#3087223)
my particular recipe involves fetchmail, procmail, msmtp, vim, aspell, ical, etc..

but yes, if you are stuffing +100k emails into one folder -- that is completely insane -- that's why you use procmail to sort your email into different folders as it arrives; I subscribe to a LOT of email lists and ctrl-D delivers a lot of magic when I don't want to or have the time to sort through a bunch of crap but

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