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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 21:20:11 JST minute

   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).

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 21:21:07 JST minute

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     i'm quite OK with notmuch-emacs normally but i really don't want copies of 50000 emails on all computers :(

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 21:23:03 JST minute

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     • Sergio

     @sergiotarxz those do IMAP directly without downloading everything?

   • Sergio (sergiotarxz@social.owlcode.tech)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 21:23:04 JST Sergio

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     @mntmn Evolution or geary?

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 21:24:07 JST minute

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     • Andreas Grois

     @soulsource actually weirdly enough aerc _does_ scroll email bodies with the mouse wheel (in my case trackball). just can't click on emails

   • Andreas Grois (soulsource@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 21:24:08 JST Andreas Grois

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     @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.

     http://www.mutt.org/

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 21:32:34 JST minute

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     ah i should have RTFM on this one

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 21:39:00 JST minute

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     at least my terminal can show images

   • Steinar Bang (steinarb@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 21:42:55 JST Steinar Bang

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     @mntmn w3m looks like emacs?

     What MUA?

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 21:47:28 JST minute

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     • Steinar Bang

     @steinarb aerc

   • Steinar Bang (steinarb@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 21:53:50 JST Steinar Bang

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     @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).

   • linkert (linkert@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 21:57:23 JST linkert

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     @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 ;)

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 22:01:31 JST minute

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     • Manos Pitsidianakis

     @epilys oh cool!

   • Manos Pitsidianakis (epilys@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 22:01:32 JST Manos Pitsidianakis

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     @mntmn sad that nobody ever recommends my e-mail client 😬😬😬😬

     https://meli.delivery/

   • Henner Zeller (hzeller@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 22:02:43 JST Henner Zeller

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     @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 ;))

   • Jürgen (elbosso@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 23:16:42 JST Jürgen

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     @mntmn a whole new world opens up. try for example gnuplot with a sixel terminal - or better yet: my version of suc https://gitlab.com/elbosso/suc is able to be a chat in the terminal you can exchange photos with: https://elbosso.github.io/simple_unix_chat.html#content

   • François 🇺🇦 (frankaulux@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 23:50:25 JST François 🇺🇦

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     @mntmn

     I use alpine.

     https://alpineapp.email/

   • lachlan but less spooky (lachlan@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 00:04:54 JST lachlan but less spooky

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     @mntmn You can finally abandon the shackles of Chromium and Firefox and switch to the one true browser: w3m. With pictures!

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 00:12:03 JST minute

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     • lachlan but less spooky

     @lachlan can i tell w3m -sixel to scale down huge images to fit to terminal size (or smaller)?

   • lachlan but less spooky (lachlan@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 07:02:30 JST lachlan but less spooky

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     @mntmn it's been a while since I used it... so I'm sorry, I can't confirm either way

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 07:44:45 JST minute

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     • Andreas Grois
     • Zach "earboxer" DeCook

     @zachdecook @soulsource thanks, i shall look into it

   • Zach "earboxer" DeCook (zachdecook@social.librem.one)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 07:44:46 JST Zach "earboxer" DeCook

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     • Andreas Grois

     @mntmn @soulsource aerc has a setting for mouse support... but it doesn't work perfect (just click, no clixk and drag)

   • FrostBeast (frostchild@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 04:51:40 JST FrostBeast

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     @mntmn Would Claws-mail qualify? I used it before, its not terribly hard to use.