![]() I get a bell on my terminal when a new email comes and my desktop environment (i3m) shows a highlighted xterm and a highlighted workspace so that I know that I have a new message. I have been using alpine (re-alpine before that and alpine before that and pine before that) for about 20 years and it ticks most of your check boxes: Maybe I should fork Mailspring, strip out the account garbage and just tolerate Electron, but that'd create a whole bunch of maintenance work I just can't take on right now. Which is beginning to seem rather silly, but it's still my experience. Overall when I want my mail client to "just work" I've found them to be piss poor compared to Thunderbird. HTML mail is used widely now as most people use webmail and just doesn't map well to console applications Archaic keybindings, or perhaps I'm just too lazy to learn them Single maintainer that could disappear at any time The TUI clients I've looked at all seem to suffer from some mix of: I'm willing to pay, someone please give me a decent cross platform alternative with a GUI, ideally a proper, non-electron one. Maybe I'm just going to be stuck with eM Client or Outlook and using RDP to check my email. Here I sit with 7 accounts in Thunderbird. I didn't think this was a big ask but I guess now that most people just use a single Gmail account the market for such things is dwindling. ![]() right up until it asked me to make an account for use with my own IMAP servers - no thanks. I was having some search issues the other day and I looked at alternatives - the options were basically Outlook, Claws Mail which is ugly as sin, eM Client which is Windows only and Mailspring which actually looked pretty good. I'm still using Thunderbird, which is barely maintained for a decent standalone IMAP client - it's beginning to feel pretty ridiculous.
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