On 1/6/2020 8:14 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting john doe (2020-01-06 07:54:44) >> On 1/4/2020 6:12 PM, Steve Kemp wrote: >>>> As far as I can tell, Mutt uses the ncurses interface >>> >>> Yes. >>> >>>> Can I use Mutt without ncurses? >>> >>> No. >>> >>>> If no, is my only alternative Sup/Notmuch? >>> >>> https://aerc-mail.org/ is new, and golang-based. No ncurses. >>> >>> Though it has to be said it seems like an odd-requirement, >>> is there a specific reason to avoid ncurses? >>> >>>> If I use Sup or Notmuch I also need to configure IMAP and SMTP access, >>>> is there a MUA which does IMAP SMTP that does not rely on ncurses? >>> >>> On that I have no idea; I wrote a console-based mail-client, >>> inspired by mutt but using Lua for UI/scripting, but I just >>> exec "/usr/sbin/sendmail .." for outgoing mail, and that's a >>> pretty common approach. <https://github.com/lumail/lumail/> >>> >> >> Yes there is, I connect to a VM using SSH and my Windows screenreader >> does not like curses interface and maybe .other interface(s) as well >> >> Regarding Alpine/re-alpine, it is somewhat better accessible then Mutt >> but far from usable at first glance. >> >> Regarding gnus, is only for emax, if I'm not mistaking and I'm a vim >> user! :) >> >> Regarding "mail", I'll look into that, thanks to...@tuxteam.de. >> >> My goal in all of this is to move away from Enigmail/Thunderbird for the >> following reasons: >> - Thunderbird moving from enigmail to use his own GPG implementation >> - Using GPG with multiple signing subkies >> >> >> Sendmail/msmtp could do what I want, I'll look into that. >> >> Thanks to Jonathan Dowland <j...@dow.land> for Mutt and 'slang'. >> >> Thanks to Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> for his input. >> >> >> Thanks to anyone else for their input. > > I appreciate this thread - for me Steve's lumail was new info worth a > closer look! > > I currently use "afew" - a notmuch frontend ising Urwid to draw. > > On my laptops I use interimap - a more efficient alternative to > offlineimap (only available in unstable and testing currently). > > As MTA I use msmtp on laptops, and postfix, dovecot-imap, dovecot-sieve > and spamassassin on reliably connected hosts. > >
Quick questions, if I may: - Why would one need postfix if you can use msmtp and msmtp-mta (or are they simply alternative) - Why would one need dovecot-imap if you can use interimap/oflineimap -- John Doe
