Ciao Francesco, On Wed, 22 May 2019 17:41:37 +0200 Francesco Ariis <fa...@ariis.it> wrote:
> I have many accounts, a couple of simple hooks like > > folder-hook fa-ml "set from=fa...@ariis.it" How is it used? > > 2. I have around 100,000 emails right now between all my accounts. I > > have one pop account because my ISP mail server doesn't support > > IMAP. I use IMAP with all the rest. I like having the email on my > > box(es) rather than leaving it on servers. Of the mailbox flavors, > > which is appropriate for this volume of email?...and also for the > > let's say 200 a day I get between the various mailing lists I'm > > on. > > I delete my emails daily, so I cannot answer from experience; > I know that there are indexing options, like marix, and that folks > speak good things about them. I was asking about the performance of having many mails. I don't need to index or search (at least as far as I know.) I wonder which of the mailbox formats offers the best performance. > > 3. I seem to remember that mutt didn't poll automagically for pop3 > > or IMAP or both. Is that still true? Is there a way to get mutt to > > check mail every 10 minutes, 15, etc. without middleware? I don't > > want to get into fetchmail, getmail etc. I want the client to do it > > all. > > Not that I know, I myself use a cronjob + getmail. Ah, this is bad news. > > > 4. For the idiots who persist in sending HTML email, even my current > > GUI client borks, sometimes badly, and the email is unreadable. Is > > there any tolerable HTML support in Mutt? > > I have mailcap configured like this > > text/html; mkdir -p /tmp/mutt \; cp %s /tmp/mutt \; > qupzilla /tmp/mutt/$(basename %s) > > and when someone sends an html-only email I open the attachment and it > pops up in my browser. Thank you for this tip. > Hope it was helpful, good luck finding a mail client that suits your > needs! Smile when you say that ;) /jl
