Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix

Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix by qudat on Friday June 10, 2022 @02:14PM (#31697557)

After dabbling with `aerc` I've moved to `mblaze` which has been a blast to work with. It really emphasizes the unix philosophy and allows for composition of commands.

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze

I've started cataloging all the terminal mail clients in a list: https://erock.lists.sh/terminal-mail-clients

Happy to add others if people know of some that I've missed.

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Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix by jolmg on Friday June 10, 2022 @02:57PM (#31698064)

Thanks for recommending mblaze. Nearly all terminal mail clients use a TUI. It's nice to see a client besides nmh that uses a CLI instead.

> Happy to add others if people know of some that I've missed.

Here are a couple of lists with clients you're missing:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications#Email_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_email_clients

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Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix by qudat on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:34PM (#31700840)

awesome, thanks!

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Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix by enriquto on Friday June 10, 2022 @05:42PM (#31699665)

> It really emphasizes the unix philosophy (...)

Hmmmm... The real unix philosophy-consistent mail client would be a filesystem that you mount. To send a mail you copy a file to the folder mail/send, to view your mail you ls mail/inbox, etc. You can browse your mail archive by date or by other criteria by accessing the appropriate directories.

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Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix by gcapell on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @06:23AM (#31736876)

http://man.cat-v.org/clive/4/upasfs

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Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix by petre on Friday June 10, 2022 @03:01PM (#31698119)

I just installed isync today and synched all my mail from 2012 up to now using msync. It was quite fast compared to getmail and it mirrors the maildir hierarchy on the imap server.

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Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix by opk on Friday June 10, 2022 @03:45PM (#31698596)

I migrated to mblaze after many years with MH and nmh, mostly because the Maildir backend allowed me to serve mail out as IMAP to have access from a mobile. Some things it does much better like threading but I still use parts of nmh where it's better.

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Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix by ashton314 on Friday June 10, 2022 @02:43PM (#31697913)

Would you count mu and mu4e?

https://github.com/djcb/mu

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Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix by qudat on Friday June 10, 2022 @02:54PM (#31698036)

Added, thanks!

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Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix by asdfqwertzxcv on Friday June 10, 2022 @03:50PM (#31698658)

Also gotta add notmuch and some more of the other frontends - https://notmuchmail.org/frontends/

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Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix by qudat on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:34PM (#31700843)

done!

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Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix by ploum on Friday June 10, 2022 @03:47PM (#31698623)

himalaya : https://github.com/soywod/himalaya

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Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix by rayiner on Friday June 10, 2022 @04:22PM (#31698970)

Well I wasn't planning on fussing with my Emacs config today, but if you insist...

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Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix by qudat on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:35PM (#31700844)

nice, thanks!

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Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix by j22jfineman on Friday June 10, 2022 @03:52PM (#31698676)

How about Claws Mail. <https://www.claws-mail.org/>

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Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix by wdr1 on Saturday June 11, 2022 @01:21AM (#31702154)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_MM

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