Re: Mail Reader

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Andrei POPESCU wrote: 
> On Jo, 08 iul 21, 12:26:14, Curt wrote:
> > On 2021-07-08, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I understand that the use of terminal software may be some advantage but
> > 
> > The use of terminal software can be fatal.
> > 
> > I use alpine myself, but the core members of the group---who sometimes
> > remind me of the dinosaurs in the back row of AA meetings (see *Infinite
> > Jest* if you're interested)---swear by Mutt (repeatedly swear by it
> > without noticeable fatigue, every time this self-same question is posed,
> > which is about once a week, but then I exaggerate, of course, for
> > effect). The thing is, though, 99% of the people asking this question
> > are looking for a GUI app, so the Mutt responses are nearly always *à
> > côté de la plaque*. This doesn't bother these recidivists, because they
> > don't really concern themselves with the question asked. All they
> > really care about is the answer given: *Their* answer. 
> 
> I can only recommend things I have reasonably recent experience with.

Mutt's awesome. I use it many times a day.

I also use a phone client -- K9-mail -- because it's better on
my phone's hardware than mutt (via ssh) is.

I also, less regularly, use rainloop, a web client.

All of them are swell.

Only mutt can handle 500,000 pieces of mail in an archive in a
way that is both performant and reasonable for something other
than "search and destroy".

-dsr-