>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Barrett <[email protected]> writes:
Daniel> On July 19, 2019, John Stoffel wrote: >> I really just love the way VM works, but it's getting flakier and >> flakier as more an more email goes HTML based and it's just hard to >> handle at time. Daniel> What specific issues are you encountering? Well... it's a pain visiting IMAP vs plain folders, so now I have two sets of key bindings in message mode: v = visit folder i = visit IMAP folder w = save to IMAP folder s = save to folder which is just clunky. HTML email is just painful, esp since I like to hit 't' to expose the message headers, but now that's broken for html emails unless I do Shift-d a few times to change the message decoding. I'm sure this is all fixable, but not with my (total lack of) elisp skills. Daniel> I deal with HTML mail with a single middle-click that sends Daniel> the message to Chrome. If I'm connected to my computer by SSH Daniel> (no Chrome), I instead view the message with lynx. I don't even use the mouse generally, and I'm replying in VM right now, since I *really* do like how it works to composing emails and such. Daniel> VM has its warts, but it's the only mail client I've found Daniel> that handles 4000+ mail folders with ease (thanks to Emacs Daniel> auto-complete in the minibuffer) and has vm-pcrisis.el so I Daniel> can respond with different From addresses. I admit I like it alot too, eps since I can search emails or folders so nicely and easily. It's just that the warts aren't getting fixed or even worked on. Which is a shame. So I'm thinking that taking the parts I like: - keybindings - flexibility - emacs editing and bolting them on top of another mail reader might be the better long term answer. Or at least something I could try to do and see how it works out. I do use mutt for reading one mailing list that's stupid high volume, but replying is painful since the keybindings are oh so different. The basic ideas are the same, it's just the implementation is different. So re-skinning mutt with VM bindings might be the best of both worlds. Dunno...
