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  Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-05-15 02:04 +0000
    Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2018-05-15 02:48 +0000
      Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2018-05-15 08:13 +0300
        Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2018-05-18 22:43 -0300
          Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Yeechang Lee <ylee@columbia.edu> - 2019-04-17 23:49 -0700
            Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-04-18 16:58 -0300
            Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-22 19:29 -0400
              Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2019-04-23 08:03 +0300
              Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-29 16:44 -0400
      Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2018-05-15 07:55 +0000
        Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Bob Eager <news0007@eager.cx> - 2018-05-15 09:04 +0000
          Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Nyssa <Nyssa@flawlesslogic.com> - 2018-05-15 09:32 -0400
            Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Bob Eager <news0007@eager.cx> - 2018-05-15 14:13 +0000
              Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-05-15 10:42 -0400
              Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2018-05-16 04:28 +0000
        Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2018-05-15 10:27 +0100
    Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Dario Niedermann <dario@darioniedermann.it> - 2018-05-15 11:09 +0200
    Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2018-05-15 10:10 +0100
    Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2018-05-15 12:55 +0200
      Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2018-05-15 11:36 +0000
    Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2018-05-15 12:58 +0200
    Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2018-05-15 22:50 +0300
      Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Bob Eager <news0007@eager.cx> - 2018-05-15 20:53 +0000
        Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2018-05-18 10:11 +0300
    Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-05-15 15:38 -0500
    Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2018-06-04 08:33 +0000
      Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-06-04 12:50 +0000
        Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-06-04 19:14 -0400
          Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-06-05 01:46 -0500
            Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2018-06-06 02:22 +0000
          Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2018-06-05 11:05 +0000
          Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-06-05 12:39 +0000
            Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-06-05 18:37 -0400
              Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-06-05 22:58 +0000
    Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Sparc IPX <sparcipx@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2018-06-09 18:33 +0000
      Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Michael Black <mblack@pubnix.net> - 2018-06-11 12:47 -0400

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#15915

On 2018-05-15, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>
> happens. Some of the clients floated by the editors include: Webmail, Airmail
> 3, Readdle's Spark, Edison Mail, Sparrow, Inbox by Gmail, and MailSpring.

Sparrow was apparently excellent, but got swallowed by Google.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrow_%28email_client%29>

    "Sparrow was an email client for OS X and iOS. After a 4-month beta
    period, Sparrow went on sale in the Mac App Store on February 9,
    2011 and became the top paid and top grossing app in less than one
    day.[1] On July 20, 2012, the company announced that it had been
    acquired by Google and was ceasing continued development of the
    application except for critical bug fixes."

And I've come across allegations that Spark leaks way too much personal
info to the mother ship.

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#15920

RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:

> With Google recently rolling out a big revamp of Gmail to mixed reviews, we
> would like to know which email client you prefer. Are you a firm believe in the
> "inbox zero" idea

I think I did the "inbox zero" thing back in early 90s with my first
email account in the university. I didn't get much mail back then. This
was a student account at a time when faculty wasn't using email to
communicate with students so it was just messages with other students
for the most part. 

Today I archive emails about stuff I'm likely going to need in the
future, which means tickets and info for trips and entertainment so that
I can find them when it's time to go. Everything else stays in the inbox
so it's a graveyard of mostly announcements and newsletters and ads. I
tend to move last year's mails to a separate folder around mid year or
so.

As for the email client, I don't know if I have a favorite. I use
Thunderbird and Outlook on Windows, Thunderbird and Kmail and mutt on
Linux, TypeApp and Outlook on Android. Mutt is the only client where I
can update my personal bogofilter database with missed spam.

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#15922

On Tue, 15 May 2018 22:50:27 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:

> As for the email client, I don't know if I have a favorite. I use
> Thunderbird and Outlook on Windows, Thunderbird and Kmail and mutt on
> Linux, TypeApp and Outlook on Android. Mutt is the only client where I
> can update my personal bogofilter database with missed spam.

On Claws Mail, I have a shell script that updates bogofilter (although it 
does it by sending it to the central email server). That's linked to a 
button that I can push.

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#15929

Bob Eager <news0007@eager.cx> writes:

> On Tue, 15 May 2018 22:50:27 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
>
>> As for the email client, I don't know if I have a favorite. I use
>> Thunderbird and Outlook on Windows, Thunderbird and Kmail and mutt on
>> Linux, TypeApp and Outlook on Android. Mutt is the only client where I
>> can update my personal bogofilter database with missed spam.
>
> On Claws Mail, I have a shell script that updates bogofilter (although it 
> does it by sending it to the central email server). That's linked to a 
> button that I can push.

Interesting. I guess that sort of thing would be doable for Thunderbird
or KMail but I don't have the faintest idea how to do that. Well, KMail
apparently has "pipe through" and "execute command" actions in the
filter setup so that might be it. Worth a try if I get around to it.

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#15921

For me: mostly Mutt, SeaMonkey, and webmails. When I was working, 
Outlook.


RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> From the «mutt or die» department:
> Title: Slashdot Asks: Which Is Your Favorite Email Client?
> Author: help@slashdot.org
> Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 21:03:00 -0400
> Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SN4HGZBIO0w/slashdot-asks-which-is-your-favorite-email-client

> With Google recently rolling out a big revamp of Gmail to mixed reviews, we
> would like to know which email client you prefer. Are you a firm believe in the
> "inbox zero" idea -- that is, the approach to email management aimed at keeping
> the inbox empty, or almost empty, at all times? If you're looking for
> inspiration, Ars Technica recently published an article highlighting several
> different email clients used by the editors of the site: Are you the sort of
> person who needs to read and file every email they get? Or do you delight in
> seeing an email client icon proudly warning of hundreds or even thousands of
> unread items? For some, keeping one's email inbox with no unread items is more
> than just a good idea: it's a way of life, indicating control over the 21st
> century and its notion of productivity. For others, it's a manifestation of an
> obsessively compulsive mind. The two camps, and the mindsets behind them, have
> been a frequent topic of conversation here in the Ars Orbiting HQ. And rather
> than just argue with each other on Slack, we decided to collate our thoughts
> about the whole "inbox zero" idea and how, for those who adhere to it, that
> happens. Some of the clients floated by the editors include: Webmail, Airmail
> 3, Readdle's Spark, Edison Mail, Sparrow, Inbox by Gmail, and MailSpring.

> [image 2][2][image 4][4][image 6][6]

> Read more of this story[7] at Slashdot.
> [image 8]

> Links:
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#16057

While I use Squirrelmail webmail software, the iOS Mail ‘app’ and
Thunderbird most often, my favorite client is good old Unix mail. I’m also
pretty keen on keeping my inbox under control, except in my gmail which I
use only as a junk mail account.

Email will be with us forever, thank heavens. It seems even the tappy tappy
phone and tablet kids still use it.

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#16059

Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
> While I use Squirrelmail webmail software, the iOS Mail ‘app’ and
> Thunderbird most often, my favorite client is good old Unix mail [...]

What, no love for mutt?  'mail(x)' is nice too; but I always forget how
to make it do things.


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#16061

On 2018-06-04, Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
> Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
>> While I use Squirrelmail webmail software, the iOS Mail ‘app’ and
>> Thunderbird most often, my favorite client is good old Unix mail [...]
>
> What, no love for mutt?  'mail(x)' is nice too; but I always forget how
> to make it do things.
>

You're late to the thread (but welcome).  We started with mutt when I posted
the link.  "Mutt or Die!!!!"

The day they take mutt from me is the day I stop emailing.

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#16062

RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On 2018-06-04, Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
> > Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
> >> While I use Squirrelmail webmail software, the iOS Mail ???app??? and
> >> Thunderbird most often, my favorite client is good old Unix mail [...]
> >
> > What, no love for mutt?  'mail(x)' is nice too; but I always forget how
> > to make it do things.
> >

> You're late to the thread (but welcome).  We started with mutt when I posted
> the link.  "Mutt or Die!!!!"

> The day they take mutt from me is the day I stop emailing.

I was forced to learn and use Mutt on an old Linux shell account. I used 
to use Pine! I can see why Mutt is powerful though even though it took 
me a very long time to get used to it.
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#16068

Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>> On 2018-06-04, Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
>> > Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
>> >> While I use Squirrelmail webmail software, the iOS Mail ???app??? and
>> >> Thunderbird most often, my favorite client is good old Unix mail [...]
>> >
>> > What, no love for mutt?  'mail(x)' is nice too; but I always forget how
>> > to make it do things.
>> >
>
>> You're late to the thread (but welcome).  We started with mutt when I posted
>> the link.  "Mutt or Die!!!!"
>
>> The day they take mutt from me is the day I stop emailing.
>
> I was forced to learn and use Mutt on an old Linux shell account. I used
> to use Pine! I can see why Mutt is powerful though even though it took
> me a very long time to get used to it.

alpine still works for me. if it ain't broke don't fix it thank you very much.

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#16063

RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On 2018-06-04, Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
>> Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
>>> While I use Squirrelmail webmail software, the iOS Mail ?app? and
>>> Thunderbird most often, my favorite client is good old Unix mail [...]
>>
>> What, no love for mutt?  'mail(x)' is nice too; but I always forget how
>> to make it do things.
>>
> 
> You're late to the thread (but welcome).  We started with mutt when I posted
> the link.  "Mutt or Die!!!!"
> 
> The day they take mutt from me is the day I stop emailing.

The wonderful advantage (so often lost on todays designers who are
looking for any possible Apple-esque lock-in ecosystem) of having the
transport protocol fully decoupled from the UI.  "They" can't take mutt
away from you, unless "they" also take away SMTP from everyone.

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#16064

RS Wood wrote:
> On 2018-06-04, Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
>> Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
>>> While I use Squirrelmail webmail software, the iOS Mail ‘app’ and
>>> Thunderbird most often, my favorite client is good old Unix mail [...]
>>
>> What, no love for mutt?  'mail(x)' is nice too; but I always forget how
>> to make it do things.
>>
>
> You're late to the thread (but welcome).  We started with mutt when I
> posted the link.  "Mutt or Die!!!!"

Weird, this was the first message I recall seeing for the thread. Guess
that something went screwey here.


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#16066

On 2018-06-05, Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
>> You're late to the thread (but welcome).  We started with mutt when I
>> posted the link.  "Mutt or Die!!!!"
>
> Weird, this was the first message I recall seeing for the thread. Guess
> that something went screwey here.

You've probably got me kill-filed  :)  

Or maybe eternal september had a hiccup?

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#16067

RS Wood wrote:
> On 2018-06-05, Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
>>> You're late to the thread (but welcome).  We started with mutt when I
>>> posted the link.  "Mutt or Die!!!!"
>>
>> Weird, this was the first message I recall seeing for the thread. Guess
>> that something went screwey here.
>
> You've probably got me kill-filed  :)  

I must!


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#16072

[snip]

I've used pine for ages, mostly out of habit.

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#16077

On Sat, 9 Jun 2018, Sparc IPX wrote:

> [snip]
>
> I've used pine for ages, mostly out of habit.
>
Yes.  When I first had full internet access, it was 1996 and at the 
Montreal Freenet, so the software ran on their server, and pine was what 
they selected.  The freenet only lasted four months (after three years of 
waiting) but I'd already invested enough in it that I stuck with it, even 
22 years later.  When I finally had a computer that would run Linux, I 
started off with Debian, because it was the "least commercial" 
distribution at the time, but it didn't include pine, its license not 
matching Debian's concept of "free".  I needed pine at that point, late 
2000, but didn't feel up to installing from elsewhere (obviously 
something I would have done later if I'd stuck with Debian).  So 
when I saw a copy of "Slackware Linux for Dummies" at the local 
bookstore with a torn cover, and a discount price, I checked to see that 
it included pine, and went with that, still sticking to Slackware 17 years 
later.

Since I'd gotten used to it, because it was available, I've never seen a 
reason since then to try others.  I have always been happy with pine, of 
course now it's alpine.

   Michael

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