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by pcr910303 2245 days ago
Well, an email client isn't a tool just for developing - it's a generic tool that has a lot of use cases. I don't think one should sacrifice features to get diff highlights or filtering PRs, nor should a generic email client try to implement out-of-the-box SourceHut filtering functionality.

Yes, one can use specific filters to accomplish subscribing to a particular PR, but that's complex, and when I'm using a generic email client I can't think of how it can not be complex.

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Nothing is stopping you from using more than one email client.
then you would need to configure filters across multiple email clients, which only makes the filter problem worse.
I use two, with very different filters. Since I use them for different things there’s not much overlap between the configurations. The total volume of conf is probably larger than if I’d used one client only, but the user experience is also a lot better (for me) since I can use the best tool in more cases.