[petemir]

I have been using it for the last weeks. It’s nice, although I didn’t have good luck with the documentation. I think some of the examples and capabilities are lacking, and the procedure for reporting/asking something seemed really convoluted with respect to something more plain like GitHub. Furthermore, another problem that I have is that sometimes I lose connection to the mail servers, and it’s imposible to recover it without closing and reopening the app. I am missing something like reconnect/refresh.

[capableweb]

> Asynchronous IMAP support ensures the UI never gets locked up by a flaky network, as mutt often does

Seems to have been made with flaky connections in mind, would be weird if there wasn't a way to recover.

But on that note, isn't it local/offline-first? The first feature that comes in mind for a email client is "download all mail to store locally so I can browse/search them anytime", is that not how this client works?

[ddevault]

No, it does not store emails offline by default (though you can configure it to use maildir and use isync to pull emails down, this is what I do in my configuration). In my opinion this is the major design mis-step of aerc which will be corrected by a future mail client.

[tjoff]

It has improved lately but no, it does not handle flaky connections well. And it is online by default.