However, there are several pain points to be addressed, which will be covered in a future post. This is enough to get started for a while, but it isn’t yet at the stage where I can replace thunderbird unfortunately. This makes for simple integration with any popular editor.įigure 6: Composition with emacs and astroid Conclusions Thankfully, astroid supports GPG encryption as well as markdown support. Before we get to the poll.sh script and astroid, it is a good idea to run each of these as we set them up, especially as the first run can take quite a long time (around an hour for 9205 messages).ġ notmuch search -output =files -format =text0 tag:killed | xargs -r0 rm Exhange accounts need davmail and are described in a separate sub-section. Generic IMAP Yahoo, and the rest are managed with isync Exchange A school account of mine uses Office 365, and will be handled with davmail in conjunction with isync Gmail There are a few of these, two personal, and two institutional, all of which are handled with lieer InSyncįor general IMAP accounts (anything which isn’t backed by gmail or outlook) an mbsync approach works best. However, these are actually broken down into a few basic types and associated mail fetching software. In no order of preference, for a variety of reasons, I have 23 distinct email accounts. Reclaiming Email with Astroid Having despaired of the GUI based bloat heavy approaches of most clients, I decided to go the old fashioned route and build one up in a modular manner. Thanks to the incredible ineptitude of the Thunderbird steering committee, I ended up requiring a new mail client. That quickly got out of hand, and was therefore spun out into a post of its own (TBD). Initially, I had planned this post to start with a brief history of the decline of email clients for Linux. Migrating Imap, Gmail and Exchange, mail accounts from GUI clients to Astroid Background

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