Good email client to use with Dovecot?

lists at lazygranch.com lists at lazygranch.com
Fri Nov 18 08:25:09 UTC 2016


I like vi (really vim), but I'm OK with Claws. I do most of my email on a BlackBerry. (No, really.)

  Original Message  
From: Patrick Ben Koetter
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 12:15 AM
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: Good email client to use with Dovecot?

* lists at lazygranch.com <lists at lazygranch.com>:
> So does mutt suck or not?

If you work with vi and like it, chances are you will also like mutt.

Personally I *love* mutt! No extra fat. Always on the spot. It is "liberal in
what it receives and conservative in how it sends". Since it is command line
program, I can run it almost everywhere.

It supports local mailboxes, SMTP, POP and IMAP as well as S/MIME and PGP.
You can highly customize it, if you want to with rules per folder, per sender
adress etc. pp.

Just like vi it takes a while until you have internalized the (invisible)
interface. Once you've moved beyond that point you will experience an enormous
boost in efficency.

If you want to, ping me offline and I will share my mutt config. That should
make it easier to start using it.

p at rick


>   Original Message  
> From: Andreas Kalex
> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 11:06 PM
> To: Dovecot Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Good email client to use with Dovecot?
> 
> since years mutt, 'cause it really sucks. 
> I tried TB or claws, evolution, opera but always returned to mutt. 
> 
> 
> 
> Am 18. November 2016 06:31:43 MEZ, schrieb Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>:
> >On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:07:15 -0800
> >lists at lazygranch.com wrote:
> >
> >> FWIW, I use claws, which is about the only one not mentioned. 
> >> 
> >> I don't like Thunderbird. For one thing, it is in caretaker status.
> >> Mozilla believes Web based mail is the "future." I rather not run
> >> roundcube, given I got hacked via an unpatched roundcube  back when I
> >> was using a hosting company. ‎ Webmail just increases your attack
> >> surface. 
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >My reason for exploring Alpine is I'm moving away from Claws, for
> >non-technical reasons I won't burden this list with.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >SteveT
> >
> >Steve Litt 
> >November 2016 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business
> >http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz

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