Please share how you handle tons of email and how happy are you with how you do it. Which services and applications do you use. What is good, what is bad, what is ugly.
And thanks a lot in advance for your time. You are appreciated to share this "survey" to somebody interested, or to repost on other maillists (CCing me please). For off-list replies, feel free to reply directly to me or post comments to this gist: [0] ==== BEGIN PERSONAL COMPLAINTS ===== I am a person who needs to be subscribed to many high-volume maillists and who likes to catch up quickly with what is actually in the email I receive. Recently I got concerned by shortcomings of many accessible tools and services and I am close desperation in a quest for comfortable universal solution. Service-related: - Gmail pisses me off when I am trying to make submission via git-send-email: [1]. Also there are issues with IMAP auth. So I am also looking for a good mailbox hosting, too. Decent paid one is ok. Sharing costs with somebody to run decent one is ok. Self-hosted is silly, but ok. Please advise. - Openmailbox.org mailbox stopped receiving mail from LKML a day after I have subscribed. Maybe due to temporary unavailability. Subscribing again fixed it, but days of email stream are missed. Software-related: - Thunderbird is by far most stable and feature-rich GUI MUA, but it still seems buggy and poorly maintained: [2] makes it unsuitable for offline work, and there are more despairing issues ([3], [4], [5] and some more with Enigmail), also its future looks questionable now due to abandonement by Mozilla. - Mutt is no doubt is The Tool to avoid any screwup at composing, and that it's rock solid, but it is not usable for quick reading (at last without careful customization with a lot of trial). It is also not multitasking - when you compose your mail, you cannot e.g. browse your folders or see what new mail has arrived meanwhile (unless you start another mutt). It is desperating that the user is forced to customize it heavily, because there defaults are unusable, there's no "batteries included" to streamline configuration and usage experience. The positive point is that you can fetch your entire IMAP mailbox contents with "offlineimap" to Maildir structure and browse it with mutt totally offline, e.g. during flight. But browsing lots of mail with mutt is still a pain, so I won't do that even though I can. I am ok to try Mutt more if somebody proposes me good configs which make folders/mail browsing pleasant. - wanderlust (emacs-based). Installed, configured, couldn't find how to see my email in it. - Sylpheed - Claws-mail (its fork) is better. - Claws-mail - fine regarding features, hangs for long time all the way while doing something like sync-ing mailboxes. Crashes occasionally. - Evolution - crashes. - KMail - so many dependencies, failed to get it installed on my two different Gentoo installations due to some akamai-server compilation issue. - Trojita - something was wrong (even excluding lack of OpenPGP support), don't remember what exactly. I perfectly understand that "software is never done", and that it's years of collective effort to bring to life a good mailing app, especially open-source one. If that's inevitable, I'm fine to take part in it. But if something exists today, being perfect for my usecase, please let me know, I am happy to find my thing without becoming an expert in all email-related things. To recap what is important for me: - Stability - Offline work with full copy of mailbox - OpenPGP support - Sieve integration (spam marking, easy folders management for maillists) ==== END PERSONAL COMPLAINTS ===== [0] https://gist.github.com/andrey-utkin/df143baf1763330c0f45 [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/3/148 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1244809 [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1244814 [4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1182460 [5] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1239604
