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 :(
@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.
@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)
@zachdecook @soulsource thanks, i shall look into it
@mntmn The only images worth showing.
@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 (https://timg.sh) (am the author, might be a biased recommendation ;))
@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. https://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).
@mntmn Claws mail still does this pretty well https://www.claws-mail.org/
@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](https://github.com/soywod/himalaya). Dunno, might help your cause, might not. I’m looking forward to trying it out ;)
@mntmn sad that nobody ever recommends my e-mail client
@epilys oh cool!
@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. https://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_83.html Or is it not lightweight enough?
@mntmn himalaya is an actively developed CLI (not TUI) with optional synchronization, off by default https://pimalaya.org/himalaya/cli/usage/accounts/synchronize.html
sorry, doesn't interact directly with IMAP