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Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client?

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> > I use Sylpheed, which is what Claws is based on.
> > 
> > I use the filtering option heavily, so incoming mail is sorted into
> > categories based on originator or key words.
> 
> I use the filtering too. Some of it is for forwarding to my mobile phone 
> (I have a separate account for that, and it keeps the volume down). Also 
> automated DMARC test results, which are filed and then processed using a 
> button linked to a shell script. I also use it for highlighting, as most 
> unread mail is kept in my inbox until processed, with tags and colour 
> coding rather than using folders. I also use it to archive all stuff on 
> certain mailing lists.
> 
> I also use multiple outgoing (sender) accounts, although my mail server 
> aliases most of those back to the same inbox.
> 
> And templates are good, too.


I love mutt.  In fact mutt was one of the things that sold me on Linux
as a desktop OS, believe it or not (there were other things too, but
mutt was like magic for me).  I also use Sylpheed and Claws
semi-regularly (and to be honest, can barely discern a difference
between them).  

I have fewer than a dozen emails in my inbox, but lots of stuff gets
shunted over to "Archive" upon reading/acting, where it languishes
until filed, purged, or whatever.  About twice a year I go through it
and weed out the crap, file the attachments, etc.

I'm generally amazed by how many people bitch about their inboxes but
(a) sign up for every stupid commercial newsletter available when
prompted, and (b) don't know how to create rules to file stuff into
other places.  I'm on several newsletters and get regular mail from
some companies and NGOs I work with, but 100% of gets filed elsewhere,
and I read it once a week or fortnightly at best (on MY terms).

If you visit the Slashdot thread, you'll be surprised how many people
still use Eudora, the Bat, and Pegasus mail on Windows.  I was
astonished!  Several mentions of Pine as well.

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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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