Anyone remember the old Mutt email client?
I had to use it again this evening to successfully find a 10 year old email from a bank buried in a 4GB MBox file in my archive. Quick grep to find the correct file then Mutt to view the message..
I've not used Mutt for about 15 years but the keystrokes came back to me almost immediately along with memories of SSH sessions to remote mail servers 25 years ago.
Happy days.
@tatsh Woo! mutt-oauth2 just made my day!
Previously a gent from MIT IS&T put in HEROIC amounts of effort to pull together the prior jank-fest of oauth2 scripts and mutt configurations...
But with your nice new package I can 'uv tool install', add the bits you specified to my muttrc and BOOM! I'm reading my MIT E-mail in a sane interface that doesn't make my remaining damaged eye want to shrivel up and retire :)
Thank you!
(Also just sent a Buy Me a Coffee :)
@matthew after a very long "terminal-only" streak and using solely #mutt for my emails, I can say that I've been VERY happy with claws-mail (probably the funniest-sounding client out there).
In my opinion, it strikes truly the right balance between usability and lightweightness. Plain-text email (cuts the fluff away) with viewing of images built in, plugins for pretty much anything, including RSS feeds, etc. The setup is also super easy, through a wizard much like Thunderbird. Once set, you can copy the saved dotfiles and carry them over to other installs, too, allowing quick redeployment.
Claws itself is a fork of an older and even lighter client, #sylpheed, but I found that the latter does not work with all of my accounts. I encourage everyone to try it!