#+SETUPFILE: ../../../template/level-2.org
#+TITLE: E-Mail is hard
#+DATE: <2020-01-14 Tue 21:35>
#+AUTHOR: vaeringjar
#+EMAIL: vaeringjar@land
#+DESCRIPTION: Migrating email clients.
#+KEYWORDS: config


E-Mail tech is hard... for some reason. Over twenty years since the
internet went mainstream, email clients mostly suck. Even if one uses
a web interface, many of these do not respond well on small screens
(lacking or buried features) or they use too much of the resources on
the device.

I originally used pine/alpine. Over the last few years I have bounced
from one client to another, mostly landing on gnus and thunderbird. My
main complaints with these:

- gnus configs can break too easily.
- I don't care about lists or newsgroups anymore.
- gnus feels like emacs in [[https://github.com/redguardtoo/mastering-emacs-in-one-year-guide/blob/master/gnus-guide-en.org][hard mode]].
- thunderbird has no thick CLI.

For me, one of the most empowering things when I starting moving to
the CLI happened when I figured out how to use some of the basic tools
such as find, grep, and ls. All the things the IDE world wanted me to
believe they had a monopoly on crashed down to a speedy, pipe-able set
of features.

I have a place in my heart for gnus. So let's take a look at
mutt. Side note, I might use that instead. But anyway, similarly to
gnus, checkout out all the documentation. Starting from the [[https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/wikis/MuttGuide/Introduction][newbie
guid intro]] page, I have a manual, a newbie guide, and this page on how
to use them. I haven't done anything yet, and already I've gone meta.
