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for my own pocket reform i'm looking for a lightweight email client that is usable for not-super-computer-pros like me and that lets me interact with IMAP directly, i.e. does not need to download my 50000 emails first. aerc does this last part very well, but i do not understand how to use it, and it doesn't seem to accept mouse clicks etc. and doesn't seem to just display HTML emails (which most people outside the terminal-centric computer bubble send nowadays).

i'm quite OK with notmuch-emacs normally but i really don't want copies of 50000 emails on all computers :(

ah i should have RTFM on this one

at least my terminal can show images

@mntmn I think mutt might be an option? It's what I used on my netbook some years ago - mostly because that netboook had a rather small screen, and the terminal was therefore the most usable interface...

Might be a good fit for the Pocket Reform too.

I don't think it has mouse input though.

mutt.org/

www.mutt.orgThe Mutt E-Mail Client

@soulsource actually weirdly enough aerc _does_ scroll email bodies with the mouse wheel (in my case trackball). just can't click on emails

@mntmn @soulsource aerc has a setting for mouse support... but it doesn't work perfect (just click, no clixk and drag)

@mntmn back in the day, I was using pine a lot which was doing imap very well. Wondering how the follow-up project Alpine might be doing ?

For pictures and films/animations in the terminal, I recommend the timg image viewer (timg.sh) (am the author, might be a biased recommendation ;))

A terminal image and video viewer. Contribute to hzeller/timg development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHubGitHub - hzeller/timg: A terminal image and video viewer.A terminal image and video viewer. Contribute to hzeller/timg development by creating an account on GitHub.

@mntmn You can finally abandon the shackles of Chromium and Firefox and switch to the one true browser: w3m. With pictures!

@lachlan can i tell w3m -sixel to scale down huge images to fit to terminal size (or smaller)?

@mntmn it's been a while since I used it... so I'm sorry, I can't confirm either way

@mntmn w3m looks like emacs?

What MUA?

@mntmn Ah!

I use Gnus with nnimap.

Currently just my own dovecot in the cloud, but it has previously been talking to UoW imapd, cyrus imapd, MS Exchange imapd (at a job with a reasonable admin) and davmail (wrapping imap over WebDAV web access to MS Exchange)

Gnus also displays HTML formatted out of the box (though mine is set up to prefer text/plain if present in a multipart)

@mntmn Somewhat stubborn, me.

According to my daughter: if something is new and cool and everybody likes it, then I'm against

Oh well!

@mntmn Hm, new one to me. aerc-mail.org/

Not emacs, but terminal based.

It has JMAP which is kind of cool if one has to work from behind corporate firewalls (but you need a JMAP server as well and that I don't have).

aerc-mail.orgaerc - a pretty good email client
@mntmn Can't help with the mouse, or not knowing how it works, but I use it on my reform. I have a pandoc filter for text/html (check your aerc.conf) and can read them. If the email is multipart/mixed you can use ^J ^K to switch to the next and prior parts.

@mntmn I too am trying to muster a power sprint and setup something straight forward with tui email.

Aerc is cool and all but one project I’m eyeballing atm is [Himalaya](github.com/soywod/himalaya). Dunno, might help your cause, might not. I’m looking forward to trying it out ;)

GitHubGitHub - soywod/himalaya: CLI to manage emailsCLI to manage emails. Contribute to soywod/himalaya development by creating an account on GitHub.

@mntmn Maybe limit your configuration to download only INBOX? Working on IMAP directly is pretty painful: you need consistent continuous low latency internet (probably high speed too if you want a pleasant experience).

@mntmn What about gnus? That's quite powerful and configurable and can interact with remote mail servers over IMAP. gnus.org/manual/gnus_83.html Or is it not lightweight enough?

www.gnus.orgGnus Manual: 6.3 Using IMAPGnus Manual: 6.3 Using IMAP

@mntmn

sorry, doesn't interact directly with IMAP