On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 01:59:04PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:38:24PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Liam E. <liame@mail2tor.com> wrote:
What is the most minimal setup for command-line mail on a system like Debian?
On any BSD or Linux, neomutt with mbox [1] serves simple use[r]s. You can go more minimal for lols but there's not much point to it.
But if you want to move to more volume, a programmable backend, and extra crypto, which you eventually will and should just do from day one, you need fetchmail,
Please! As I said, use getmail or mpop! Fetchmail is barely maintained these days, besides being an order of magnitude slow (per email downloading, without any pipelining, unlike both getmail -and- mpop).
mutt (and neomutt presumably) supports imap natively pretty well, at least on my freebsd box (mutt 1.6.0). It used to be fairly buggy but it worked well the last time I used it for a couple weeks. But then you are limiting yourself to filtering on the server side with something like imapfilter, a program actually I like, but maildrop is nice too... So many good options! :P John