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Who here uses a desktop mail client for personal mail? ie, not something in a browser, something dedicated they have installed.

Feel free to reply with details as to why, and which client.

Boosts appreciated!

  • I use a desktop client! (62%, 141 votes)
  • I use webmail only (33%, 77 votes)
  • I just wanna see the votes (4%, 9 votes)
227 voters. Poll end: 2 mesi fa

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Jens Finkhäuser
Jens Finkhäuser
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mutt.

Why? In parts inertia. It's served me well for decades.

I started using it to filter HTML emails through lynx, because way too many senders misbehave, either omitting text/plain, or claiming their HTML is that.

It's also good at e.g. listing archive content, or converting word to text, etc.

In other words, it shows me information without distracting me with "where did it download that attachment now?"

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Marcos Dione
Marcos Dione
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#mutt only because it seems to be the only one that allows to rebuild broken threads (or just link related mails).
#mutt
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Jonathan Dowland
Jonathan Dowland
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after decades on mutt I moved to aerc a couple of years ago, but I keep (neo)mutt around for a couple of rarely-used features that aerc lacks, and this (thread break/join) is one of them
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Marcos Dione
Marcos Dione
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@jmtd ah, no, it's just the sidebar:

> Notably, the Sidebar patch has now been adopted by upstream Mutt.

@Jonathan Dowland
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Donald Hobern
Donald Hobern
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I only use webmail because I use three different machines (and a phone) and don't want to have to sync copies of my entire email history to all of them. Even if the storage is manageable, I can't stop picturing all the unnecessary network traffic*.

* Although I realise that this may all balance out if I use webmail on more than one machine at a time ...

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Marcos Dione
Marcos Dione
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@dhobern you don't need to have a local cache, you could access it all via IMAP only.
@Donald Hobern
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Donald Hobern
Donald Hobern
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@mdione
True - but the main advantage I could see for a non-browser client was being able to work offline.
@Marcos Dione
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Marcos Dione
Marcos Dione
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@dhobern agreed. I do have sync'ing done, but it's client/server only, where I also have a webmail for emergencies, and the phone has an IMAP only client that I barely use.
@Donald Hobern
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@phildini mutt, also somewhat because of inertia, but also because if I wanted to change it would be to something else with a similar interface, because it's one I find quite good.
@phildini
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Joerg Jaspert :debian:
Joerg Jaspert :debian:
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@mpjgregoire I did have Gnus before, for a long time. It was good.

notmuch is better, for me, with somewhat over 1.3 million mails and 9 different mail accounts included.

@M. Grégoire

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