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<p>One of the steps that I am attempting to make to become more self hosted is
hosting my own email. Email seems like its a bit of a harder one, but I plan to
transition my gmail over to my own email. Part of this process, however,
requires that I choose how I will be interfacing with this email server.</p>
<p>Being that I tend to be more interested in the whole minimalism meme, I went
with no web GUI and am instead choosing to use an email client. I've wanted to
transition to one for a while, but I couldn't find anything that really suited
me needs. Mutt or neomutt was the most promising, but its very high barrier to
entry really put me off from it. Thunderbird is made by mozilla, and quite a
few others like mailspring are electron apps. A program being an electron app
in of itself doesn't make it not worth using, however I really would rather have
something a bit more versatile than what most electron apps are. This is where
aerc comes in.</p>
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<p>I prefer terminal programs for a variety of reasons. They run over ssh, one
good terminal emulator means all programs should work and run decent in X11,
tend to be lighter on system resources, and personally I like the look of a
well made TUI. Aerc is one such terminal program, but for email. It uses plain
text configuration, sane defaults, and comes with a setup wizard to add your
email and auto detect settings for common services. It really was the best
"just works" tool I've found so far, in terms of email. The program was tiny
and is in the official Gentoo repositories. All key bindings can be changed,
and comes with vi-like bindings by default. It provides hooks for
automation of certain tasks. It auto refreshes for emails. It'll even use pass
and external contacts programs! It really is everything I wanted from a email
client. Feature packed, yet versatile.</p>
<p>Mine is setup to use pass, pull from my gmail, and with a few extra vim like
key bindings that are more intuitive to me. You can give it a shot
<a href="https://git.clortox.com/tyler/dotfiles">here</a>.
Its just part of my dotfiles repo. Check you the
<a href="https://aerc-mail.org">site</a> for aerc, along with a video showing
it off.</p>
<p>Thats really it, hope I could help you find a new email client!</p>
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