E-Mail is hard | Details
Migrating email clients.
Posted on 2020-01-14
E-Mail tech is hard... for some reason. Over twenty years since the internet went mainstream, email clients mostly suck. Even if one uses a web interface, many of these do not respond well on small screens (lacking or buried features) or they use too much of the resources on the device.
I originally used pine/alpine. Over the last few years I have bounced from one client to another, mostly landing on gnus and thunderbird. My main complaints with these:
- gnus configs can break too easily.
- I don't care about lists or newsgroups anymore.
- gnus feels like emacs in hard mode.
- thunderbird has no thick CLI.
For me, one of the most empowering things when I starting moving to the CLI happened when I figured out how to use some of the basic tools such as find, grep, and ls. All the things the IDE world wanted me to believe they had a monopoly on crashed down to a speedy, pipe-able set of features.
I have a place in my heart for gnus. So let's take a look at mutt. Side note, I might use that instead. But anyway, similarly to gnus, checkout out all the documentation. Starting from the newbie guid intro page, I have a manual, a newbie guide, and this page on how to use them. I haven't done anything yet, and already I've gone meta.