It brings joy to my heart to still see these simple web 1.0 pages.<p>And the front page has almost all the information I care about as a terminal luddite: vim bindings, etc.<p>One point of criticism: it says extensible, but it's not very clear how exactly it's extensible. What language is used for extensions? Go? Scripts + conf files with hooks? The front page makes no mention, nor does the source page, and I've yet to find it by clicking around the wiki.
So, given that with email, the important part is the data, and not the client, I was able to give this client a spin. Not bad. I was able to go though my recent email, view some HTML email I keep getting, and mash through things without a lot of problems. Maybe I'll stick with this client? ::shrug::<p>This is one of the few domains where you can play with different client still. And there can be innovations here with CLI versions, which I like.<p>Reading other comments in the thread, it sounds like ddevault has ideas for the next version. If so, that's cool, and it should be easy to try out.
I tried to sign-in into my work Outlook account with aerc a while ago, from WSL2, unfortunately it didn't work with an app password[0], and OAuth2 won't cut it, because I'll have to ask the company's services administrator to grant me access.<p>Nevertheless, a great piece of software. Using it for personal e-mail.<p>[0]: <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/manage-app-passwords-for-two-step-verification-d6dc8c6d-4bf7-4851-ad95-6d07799387e9" rel="nofollow">https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/manage-a...</a>
I like it. It's somewhat reminiscent of this one we used to use called Pine :) I think sourcehut guy made this, right?<p>edit: yep sourcehut guy. they also made this cool guide here: <a href="https://git-send-email.io/" rel="nofollow">https://git-send-email.io/</a>
I use an email client called bower, which is fairly light on features, but has one killer feature: it works with remote notmuch databases.<p>So I get great search, but can easily open attachments locally, or even compose in a GUI editor.
Ah this is awesome, brings back so many memories when i was a UW student on Pine[0] then Alpine[1]<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_(email_client)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_(email_client)</a><p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_(email_client)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_(email_client)</a>
Was threading support ever added? I recall there being a few attempts. I tried aerc out for quite a bit but ultimately had to give it up for neomutt b/c mailing list discussions were impossible to follow without threading support.
Related:<p><i>Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20090950" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20090950</a> - June 2019 (264 comments)
I'd love to use a lightweight email client. I've tried several in the past. When conversing with others who know how to use email, like free software mailing lists, for example, they are a joy to use. But as soon as you have to interact with the Microsoft shite it just doesn't work. Things just start breaking in random ways and you're never really sure if you're getting the message you're supposed to be getting. Since I mostly use email for work, I've found Thunderbird to be the only good option.
I have been using it for the last weeks. It’s nice, although I didn’t have good luck with the documentation. I think some of the examples and capabilities are lacking, and the procedure for reporting/asking something seemed really convoluted with respect to something more plain like GitHub. Furthermore, another problem that I have is that sometimes I lose connection to the mail servers, and it’s imposible to recover it without closing and reopening the app. I am missing something like reconnect/refresh.
Love Aerc but if I'm going to jump ship from Betterbird/Thunderbird I really need a lightweight calendar app to pair Aerc with as that's a vital part of my day to day. Any recommendations?