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Email has increasingly become my preferred method of communication over
the past few years. As the popularity of other instant messaging platforms ebb and flow,
email has remained one of the few ubiquitous methods for discourse,
messaging, and notification. In addition to its ubiquity, I like that email enables slow thinking /
maintaining focus and doesn't require an always-on internet connection. I also like that it's decentralized; though some of the bigger players
have certainly gained enough users to control the ecosystem a bit,
Fastmail, ProtonMail, Posteo, Gandi, and others, as well as self-hosting
are all available. In terms of client software, mu4e has been absolutely fantastic for
searching, and indexing (via mu), threading, marking, replies, etc.
making email work even better. mutt was also a favorite MUA for many
years before my journey into Emacs. For responding to SMS messages via email, voip.ms gets the job done as a
SMS/email gateway, helping to consolidate the majority of my
asynchronous messages into the same platform. |