Looking for the perfect mail client

Ian Main imain at redhat.com
Thu Oct 23 21:28:43 PDT 2014


Sepp Tannhuber wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm wondering whether there's a notmuch mail client
> - with a handling similar to alot
> - which is capable to show html content without html2ascii conversion
> - which can use vim as editor
> - which doesn't need a web browser
> - which doesn't need a mouse
> - which is fast
> 
> In principle, alot is the perfect mail client for me except that I've
> many problems with all the html mails people send to me. So I'm wondering
> whether anybody knows a webkit based alot fork or something similar. It's
> strange that after so many years I'm still looking for the perfect mail
> client.

I wonder if you'd be willing to give the vim client a go.  We've done a lot
of work to it lately and I think it would handle all you listed here.

Try the github version as I have all the patches applied there:

https://github.com/imain/notmuch-vim

    Ian


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