On Jun 11, 2013 3:20 PM, "Alex Pilon" <a...@alexpilon.ca> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:35:33PM +0300, Edgaras wrote: > > Well mutt is niceish, but not suckless. (well at something like 20MB > > of ram > > In what state? Stripped, idle and no configuration (~5mb > shared+resident)? With a connection (let's add TLS on top too for more > overhead) opened to some remote server, messages already processed and > cached in memory (assuming mutt keeps them there after reading from the > on-disk cache), etc.? > > > seem a bit mutch for mail client, > > Yeah. Consumes more memory than a 32-bit diskless workstation with a > custom kernel and busybox in an initramfs (so everything in RAM). > Admitedly not necessarily a fair comparison. But then again… > > > Also setup with imap over ssl is a bit complicated. > > How? Mutt has sane defaults for IMAPS or IMAP+STARTTLS, as regards > SSL/TLS itself. One needs not set any options in wherever and whatever > your configuration file is. > > Or are you referring to the mutt internals or SSL in general? > > > As a nice plus for mailx, it is very simple to make it work with imap > > over ssl, like i.e. gamail, can be done with couple of minutes of man > > page reading. > > So can mutt. The following has all you need for a typical configuration. > > http://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/MuttGuide/UseIMAP > > Read muttrc(5) for the remainder. I shan't expand further since this is > not a mutt list. > > Any body know of a suckless method of using IMAP mostly > offline/disconnected? Offlineimap sucks and is brittle.
There is isync ( http://isync.sourceforge.net/) , which appears to be a saner implementation of OfflineIMAP's idea. ---- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
