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

[Dan Ciprus (dciprus)]

If you are a mobile user then things are a bit more complex. If you prefer to 
have your emails/accounts stored at the same place - desktop machine for example 
- then offlineimap/fetchmail/mbsync is your way to go. There is no limit on user 
  accounts with this solution. Things might get a bit more complex when it comes 
  to gmail accounts where daddy Google needs to have a control even on what keys 
  you are pressing - disabled pop3/imap support.

As far as searching this mess: notmuch would be something I would recommend ..

HTML support - unfortunately for us, this is going to get worse in coming years.  
People seem to like more colors/fonts/pictures than actual value of the thought 
put in to the text person is sending. You can have external browser showing you 
the email - that's for viewing it. For editing it - I have not found better 
solution than writing markdown and then translating it via pandoc to html 
format. With this editing you will obviously break an email which you are 
responding to ...

... just my 2 cents to this.

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 03:03:42PM +0000, John Long wrote:
>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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Daniel Ciprus                              .:|:.:|:.
CONSULTING ENGINEER.CUSTOMER DELIVERY   Cisco Systems Inc.

dciprus at cisco.com

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