[mjhoy]

> There is absolutely no need in wasting time scoring nerd points.

Well said.

But: I have been using mu4e + Emacs for email for about two years now. I would seriously recommend anyone who already uses Emacs -- and especially if you use org-mode -- to look into it. Not because you score nerd points for reading & composing email in Emacs (frankly, you look ridiculous) but because it might just hook in perfectly with your workflow. I hardly touch any of the power user features, I do very little customization, and still it is by far the best way for me to manage my email. I also use it side by side with a web client (both Fastmail and Gmail) and switch if I need to.

[uberchet]

I use emacs, but exclusively for orgmode. I thought about mutt years ago, and realized I get and receive too much mail with rich content for that to work.

How does an emacs window, even with mu4e, represent emails with meaningful formatting, inline graphics, etc? I'm guessing by launching an external viewer, but even that would slow me down quite a bit.

[mjhoy]

> represent emails with meaningful formatting

For basic formatting (bold text, headings, lists, links, etc etc), Emacs can render using its built in web browser. The "richer" it is, the more screwy the formatting gets. Usually you can at least read the emails.

You can easily pipe an email to your web browser of choice. This works fine but isn't exactly what you want to be doing all the time.

For my work, I am mostly dealing with plain text and attachments. The rich stuff is usually the email I care less about anyway. I don't think I'd want to use mu4e if I was dealing with rich content often. You can do it but it definitely slows you down.