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

[John Long]

Ciao Francesco,

On Wed, 22 May 2019 17:41:37 +0200
Francesco Ariis <fa-ml at ariis.it> wrote:

> I have many accounts, a couple of simple hooks like
> 
>     folder-hook fa-ml "set from=fa-ml at ariis.it"

How is it used?

> > 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.  
> 
> I delete my emails daily, so I cannot answer from experience;
> I know that there are indexing options, like marix, and that folks
> speak good things about them.

I was asking about the performance of having many mails. I don't need
to index or search (at least as far as I know.) I wonder which of the
mailbox formats offers the best performance.

> > 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.  
> 
> Not that I know, I myself use a cronjob + getmail.

Ah, this is bad news.

> 
> > 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?  
> 
> I have mailcap configured like this
> 
>     text/html; mkdir -p /tmp/mutt \; cp %s /tmp/mutt \;
> qupzilla /tmp/mutt/$(basename %s)
> 
> and when someone sends an html-only email I open the attachment and it
> pops up in my browser.

Thank you for this tip.

> Hope it was helpful, good luck finding a mail client that suits your
> needs!

Smile when you say that ;)

/jl