Can I do this (should I do this) with Mutt?

[Jude DaShiell]

There's account hooks for that, but I don't know if they incur any
latency.

On Wed, 22 May 2019, John Long wrote:

> Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 11:03:42
> From: John Long <codeblue at inbox.lv>
> To: mutt-users at mutt.org
> Subject: Can I do this (should I do this) with Mutt?
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been a casual mutter for around 10 years. I have it working with
> PGP, S/MIME, all that I need...for one account. The only thing is, I am
> increasingly dissatisfied with the direction GUI clients are going. I
> had one I have been using for years and it just keeps getting more and
> more features, incompatible changes, and bugs. Several of them
> encrypted my account credentials so I couldn't retrieve them. At one
> point I downloaded the source for it and put printf statements so I
> could recover my credentials to use with another client. I like mutt's
> text config.
>
> I have around 10 email accounts I use actively for various mailing
> lists, work, personal etc.
>
> 1. Is it reasonable to use Mutt with many email accounts? I know you
> probably can, but is it reasonable as in, is it manageable, is the
> performance good enough on a midrange box. Usability stuff, like will
> mutt automagically respond using the correct account (the account the
> email I'm replying to was received by), is it clear when you compose
> which account you're using. Etc.
>
> 2. I have around 100,000 emails right now between all my accounts. I
> have one pop account because my ISP mail server doesn't support IMAP.
> I use IMAP with all the rest. I like having the email on my box(es)
> rather than leaving it on servers. Of the mailbox flavors, which is
> appropriate for this volume of email?...and also for the let's say 200
> a day I get between the various mailing lists I'm on.
>
> 3. I seem to remember that mutt didn't poll automagically for pop3 or
> IMAP or both. Is that still true? Is there a way to get mutt to check
> mail every 10 minutes, 15, etc. without middleware? I don't want to get
> into fetchmail, getmail etc. I want the client to do it all.
>
> 4. For the idiots who persist in sending HTML email, even my current
> GUI client borks, sometimes badly, and the email is unreadable. Is
> there any tolerable HTML support in Mutt?
>
> Thanks,
>
> /jl
>

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