[ale] State of text based email programs?

Héctor Abreu habreu71 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 24 10:08:01 EDT 2022


I use neomutt with fetchmail everyday. I experienced some problems with
OAUTH2 recently but managed to find a workaround to avoid using that
authentication method.

Hector.

El dom., 24 de abril de 2022 8:51 a. m., Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org>
escribió:

> I've not used pine in decades. Or it's editor part pico (line length limit
> was the terminal size and it inserted a \n instead of wrapping. Perl was
> very unhappy). Mutt is still used for shloging through localhost server
> email for system events. Still works.
>
> Still use mail/mailx for automated sending. HPC users often finish with a
> custom status email.
>
> Did recently hit a snag with mailx on message body size. At around 10k
> characters, it doesn't send anything. Apparently, some users want to get a
> few million characters in email after a job run so they can read the
> results on their phone.
>
> On April 24, 2022 8:16:28 AM EDT, Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>> I used to use Pine and Mutt, are they still the best choice? Mutt seems like it's still active, Pine may not be.
>>
>> Recommendations for a non-thunderbird open source mailer that can take in the decade or two of email I have?
>>
>> Leam
>>
>>
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