Re: [dev] mail clients

From: Dmitrij Czarkoff <czarkoff_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:28:58 +0000

On Jun 11, 2013 3:20 PM, "Alex Pilon" <alp_AT_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.

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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Received on Tue Jun 11 2013 - 15:28:58 CEST

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