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by capableweb 1348 days ago
> 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?
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ddevault 1348 days ago
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.
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tjoff 1348 days ago
It has improved lately but no, it does not handle flaky connections well. And it is online by default.
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