@argv_minus_one
> the weird authentication protocol required by Gmail.
For that, specifically, I can only recommend: If a mail provider refuses to conform to standard auth protocols, they're a lost cause, ditch that provider.
As for this:
> what about email clients?
#Mutt has served my needs for decades, #AERC is worth a look: https://aerc-mail.org/
and, for mobile devices, #K9Mail: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.fsck.k9/
Sure, #elinks isn't built for the modern web, but it serves a purpose. I use #aerc for email, #senpai for irc, #iamb for matrix chat, #slrn for newsgroups and message boards, #ncspot for Spotify, #mpg123 for local media or online radio, and #rbw for my bitwarden client. I really don't need much else. It's not a machine I rely on for serious tasks, but it's covered most of my daily needs. Best of all, without a GUI, it's blazing fast!
I've been enjoying some time on #gopher and #gemini as well.
@msfjarvis @triskelion I found today alps webmail and local laptop use #aerc pretty good.
Does anyone have experience in using AERC, the command-line email client?
I'd like to read posts outlining custom workflows and learn the proper way to set it up for my needs.
Boosts welcome.
@T_X Also the bet i made 5y ago is won: how disappointing it seemed at first, it is the power of the communities, the cleverness of the free/libre software developpers and users, and the personal work on tweaking and tinkering that made it over time get way better: more performance, adequation to my own needs, battery life even!
I composed an environment based on the free/libre modem "distro" https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk, #postmarketOS edge, #sxmo and mostly TUI tools: #tut #aerc #gomuks #links -g
New release of #aerc (CLI mail user agent)
available on #Archlinux
So far, #thunderbird seems to be the best email client in Linux. Tried #kmail, #geary and even #aerc, but @thunderbird is the easiest and with better looks
@unixporn @neovim@sopuli.xyz #unixporn #programming
https://codeberg.org/foxy/.dotfiles
distro: @alpinelinux
shell: #fishShell
font: #Iosevka Fixed Nerd Font Mono
wm: #Sway
terminal: #WezTerm @wez
bar: #Waybar
launcher: #Wofi
fetch: #pfetch-rs
processes: #htop
editor: #visimp @neovim@hachyderm.io
browser: @librewolf
PDFs: #zathura
email: #aerc @sircmpwn
Matrix: #iamb @ulyssa
Mastodon: @tut @rasmus
does anyone have a good experience with meli, the rust email TUI client, with mailbox.org?
i seem to have gave up after many tries of configuring and gone back to aerc
i guess i will switch to meli from aerc.
seems it has a better UI for me
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password-store and my email client #aerc working again on my #FreeBSD daily driver. Wan't too much hassle although I did note a message after the aerc pkg installed a dependency getop. It basically said that getopt is depreciated and will be removed on or after 31-10-2024. Consider using getopt from the pkg util-linux. I'll investigate that later I think.I have been a daily user of the #aerc mail client for quite some time and I really like it. The friendly dev community is big plus too.
And now there is coverage by @LWN for those looking to learn more.
https://lwn.net/Articles/993498/
(If you don’t subscribe to LWN, it’ll be freely accessible in a week.)
This image and your posts about #aerc, #mbsync etc. are making me nostalgic.
For over a decade, I had a #getmail + #maildrop + #mutt setup, with mail getting sorted and archived on my local machine.
About half a decade ago, I decided that #email is not worth all the trouble.
Deleted all the archives.
Now I annually do a cleaning exercise by simply deleting all mails older than two years. If I couldn't be bothered to deal with them in two years, unlikely I ever would in future.
I really like it so far, get a good email client (for example, #aerc) and have a look at #Sourcehut (for example, https://sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc/ ;)).
