>0 say @ 2025/07/27 16:18
For me, it's /usr/bin/mail -> /usr/bin/s-nail
>1 ant @ 2025/07/29 08:52
>>OP With all due fear of the wrath of Shell-God, I use Sylpheed -- a GTK2-based e-mail and Usenet client. /Sylpheed Saved My Life/: http://web.archive.org/web/20061107135628/http://www.zedshaw.com/tips/sylpheed.html Not many programs have recevied such praise. One other instance is a hillarious 6-player gamed called Zatacka, of whcih the author of a review said: "Zatacka changed my life."
>2 say @ 2025/07/29 21:02
>>OP Oh cool, I like that guy Zed! I learned python from his guide originally.
>3 say @ 2025/07/29 21:05
I have to say!!!! Every time I used one of these ssh boards, like this one,
or
ssh lowlife@45.79.250.220
or
telnet bbs.archaicbinary.net
I think, "wow what a nice experience". It's too bad it's not more common. I like it even better than usenet etc. But I don't use anything like this normally!
>4 ant @ 2025/07/29 21:55
>>3
Well, there still are /tons/ of BBSes out there, many of them integrated with FidoNet and/or Usenet. Nova BBS (novabbs.org, novabbs.com) carried many Usenet groups, but is now down. Do try
telnet magnumbbs.net
-- they have a selection of Usenet groups.
Yes, telnet BBS experience is somethig else.
>5 rdlmda @ 2025/07/31 17:53
>>OP I have been uning gmail's web interface for two decades now. I have also used Thunderbird briefly, but abandoned it for a few reasons, it having corrupted years of my work's mailbox not the smallest of those reasons. At work, I use either Sogo or Roundcube I had never ever used a shell mail client until recently joining tilde.club, having tried mail, mutt and alpine, I'm much more ibclined to the latter. The learning curve and different paradigm is a bit challenging, but fun.
>6 rdlmda @ 2025/07/31 19:57
>>3 All this BBS talk made me start a thread about BBS'es!
>7 cartwright @ 2025/10/08 15:31
I use alpine 2.26
>8 zgd @ 2025/10/10 17:41
Alpine!
>9 mathpunk @ 2025/10/11 04:13
I use thunderbird on my local machine, and neomutt on tilde.team. Over the last couple years, I've gotten somewhat comfortable with neomutt, and I'm thinking of switching to it from thunderbird, but thunderbird serves my needs well enough that I don't know if I will.
>10 anthk @ 2025/12/12 15:46
>>OP Mutt. It's just a little step over s-nail in the end. Kinda like what vi is for ed.
>11 ecjonas @ 2026/03/31 11:33
>>4 On tilde, I use mutt. My personal computer is a Chromebook, therefore I use K-9 Mail on the Play Store
>12 vladut @ 2026/04/02 00:29
>>10 aerc works pretty nice for me. on my ungoogled phone i use thunderbird
>13 lbjonas @ 2026/04/02 17:16
Gmail
>14 anthk @ 2026/04/03 13:41
>>OP Mutt under Unix, nedmail under 9front.
>15 fenris @ 2026/04/04 23:11
pine and mutt in shells, otherwise thunderbird. all serve very well.
>16 danielaw @ 2026/04/06 13:50
>>OP On UNIX/Linux shells, I quite enjoy alpine and mutt. But honestly, I'm glad I'm not forced to use mail clients as much as I had to back in the day.
>17 ant @ 2026/05/03 00:33
>>10 But vi is /two/ steps ahead of ed, via ex.
>18 singletona082 @ 2026/07/04 21:42
in tildes? Mutt. Webclient for gmail. Claws for my @tilde.club account, tilde nntp, and Usenet.
>19 threatcat @ 2026/07/27 03:55
>>OP I'm also using mutt on tilde -- but it grates my nerves that I cannot find the muttrc I used to use. It was a collection of good tips people had blogged circa 2008-2013. Just about the only thing I can find from then is Steve Losh's The Homely Mutt. Back then I used to use Tuffmail as mail service. Seems like most services I would use now are set up to be a headache for Mutt. (Proton, looking at you, but also to the panoply of similar services I'm looking at ditching you for)
>20 neo @ 2026/08/12 20:27
Honestly, just the Apple Mail client. I really hate email, I think it is a dumb form of communication and all I get is spam or ads. I take the road of less-friction and just try not to think about it.
>21 luna @ 2026/09/13 05:40
>>OP Mostly mutt these days after a large stint with kmail. When I need an HTML email to look/work right for whatever reason, I have moved to claws. It's much lighter and faster than kmail and still does what I want. I know I can can use mutt's auto_view feature, but I've found web browsers to be quite terrible to interact with in that way. So I've taken out the web browser from the process. I have an account on another pubnix, soviet.circumlunar.space, and I use mutt there, too. I have used mutt in the past locally for many years (yes, I switch a lot, I like to tinker) and have quite an elaborate config which is easy to adopt to systems with a simpler mail environment which is what I did for my account on the soviet. I started here on cosmic with mutt as well, but have set up Gnus under emacs to learn how to use it and to explore vanilla emacs (as opposed to my more complex doom emacs setup on my local machine). I haven't been using it for very long, but because of my familiarity with emacs in general, it still feels pretty cozy. I really like plain text email, I think it's a lovely way of interacting with others. The protocols are a mess, I won't deny that, but as a user with mature tools, it's quite nice!