| It would be great if someone could write good text email client. I recently tried some old ones I used in the 90s again, and the quality of software has improved a lot since then. Mutt: - gets SSL errors with MS Exchange (gnu bug?), doesn't retry the connection and then stops displaying all your email. - could never get html to text rendering working, almost all emails blank - gave up on mutt... Alpine: - did actually covert html emails to text fine, most emails are readable - no key rebindins (sic), I have ^T bound to new-window in tmux, too bad that's the only way to run spell check in alpine is to press ^T - lose connection to IMAP server causes already downloaded mail to no longer be displayed on the screen - quirky LDAP lookups, I can't type peoples full names, only their login names, then it resolves them fine - tried to put my IMAP folder first on the list in the config file to make it faster to get to my inbox, crash - tried to have it startup in my inbox using the startup key sequence, crash - if there's one letter in my drafts folder, it asks me every time if I wan't to continue it when I compose a new message - asks me every time if I want to reply to everyone, and if I say yes, it includes me(!?) so I get a dup email - has pine's legendary inconstant key bindings (or is that a feature?) - sending a message hangs the whole client until it's been sent - no real concept of a deleted folder, just puts a D next to it and leaves it displayed on your screen, so you have to expunge manually if you don't want it to clutter your screen - all in all, alpine is usable though, but there's plenty annoying things in it we used to think were normal back when pine was popular. |
- Full name search in LDAP work correctly. Have you set name, surname, and given name attributes correctly in your LDAP setup.
- I exclusively used IMAP and have had no troubles with IMAP folder being fist in the list.
- Starting in the inbox (using key sequences) has always worked for me.
- Reply all does not include me in the Cc. Have you tried setting up alternate addresses field in the settings.
For HTML emails, I have set w3m as my html viewer. w3m works better with complex layouts in html.