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