It would be great if someone could write good text email client. I recently tried some old ones I used in the 90s again, and the quality of software has improved a lot since then.
Mutt:
- gets SSL errors with MS Exchange (gnu bug?), doesn't retry the connection and then stops displaying all your email.
- could never get html to text rendering working, almost all emails blank
- gave up on mutt...
Alpine:
- did actually covert html emails to text fine, most emails are readable
- no key rebindins (sic), I have ^T bound to new-window in tmux, too bad that's the only way to run spell check in alpine is to press ^T
- lose connection to IMAP server causes already downloaded mail to no longer be displayed on the screen
- quirky LDAP lookups, I can't type peoples full names, only their login names, then it resolves them fine
- tried to put my IMAP folder first on the list in the config file to make it faster to get to my inbox, crash
- tried to have it startup in my inbox using the startup key sequence, crash
- if there's one letter in my drafts folder, it asks me every time if I wan't to continue it when I compose a new message
- asks me every time if I want to reply to everyone, and if I say yes, it includes me(!?) so I get a dup email
- has pine's legendary inconstant key bindings (or is that a feature?)
- sending a message hangs the whole client until it's been sent
- no real concept of a deleted folder, just puts a D next to it and leaves it displayed on your screen, so you have to expunge manually if you don't want it to clutter your screen
- all in all, alpine is usable though, but there's plenty annoying things in it we used to think were normal back when pine was popular.
Mutt:
- gets SSL errors with MS Exchange (gnu bug?), doesn't retry the connection and then stops displaying all your email.
- could never get html to text rendering working, almost all emails blank
- gave up on mutt...
Alpine:
- did actually covert html emails to text fine, most emails are readable
- no key rebindins (sic), I have ^T bound to new-window in tmux, too bad that's the only way to run spell check in alpine is to press ^T
- lose connection to IMAP server causes already downloaded mail to no longer be displayed on the screen
- quirky LDAP lookups, I can't type peoples full names, only their login names, then it resolves them fine
- tried to put my IMAP folder first on the list in the config file to make it faster to get to my inbox, crash
- tried to have it startup in my inbox using the startup key sequence, crash
- if there's one letter in my drafts folder, it asks me every time if I wan't to continue it when I compose a new message
- asks me every time if I want to reply to everyone, and if I say yes, it includes me(!?) so I get a dup email
- has pine's legendary inconstant key bindings (or is that a feature?)
- sending a message hangs the whole client until it's been sent
- no real concept of a deleted folder, just puts a D next to it and leaves it displayed on your screen, so you have to expunge manually if you don't want it to clutter your screen
- all in all, alpine is usable though, but there's plenty annoying things in it we used to think were normal back when pine was popular.