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Ask HN: Do you use a CLI based email client?

3 pointsby artparabout 3 years ago
Which one or why not (apart from the obvious that it's cli)

3 comments

eternityforestabout 3 years ago
I don&#x27;t. Partly because it&#x27;s CLI, and I don&#x27;t enjoy the CLI enough to go out of my way for it, especially not with email, which(Unless you&#x27;re doing some inadvisable kumar-asshole.sh stuff) is not really automatable.<p>But largely because I rarely use mail clients at all aside from gmail on my phone. So many jobs don&#x27;t have their own mail servers, and I&#x27;m not particularly interested in running a personal one either.<p>I do, however, occasionally back up and clear out my old gmail messages. I might consider using a CLI client for that, if it was 5-minutes-or-less levels of easy to get started and write a script for. Otherwise I&#x27;d just use Thunderbird.<p>Not that I particularly like thunderbird, I&#x27;m really not a fan of the UI, but it works.
FerretFredabout 3 years ago
I do, but not on my &quot;main&quot; box. I chose mutt-ng. I have a portable device based around a Raspberry Pi Zero, and the 512Mb memory is at a premium, so mutt is just right. It also has loads of hooks for GPG etc so it&#x27;s just what I need. I can&#x27;t see myself using it as my daily-goto mail client though.
zzo38computerabout 3 years ago
I use Heirlooom-mailx. It is good enough, and does some things that are useful to me, and the other programs usually have stuff that I do not want.