There are so many ways to be incorrect while being factually accurate. You’re two for two. Swing again!!!
I did seriously consider rolling my own solution based on Mutt, because I don’t think any client will ever support my exact lifestyle choices out of the box, plus I like making little coding projects for myself. I could probably get the message management working just how I wanted it.
The thing is, so much of that bloat in GUI clients-- WYSIWYG composition, live searches, inline display of images-- does make my life easier. I’ve concluded that the wishlist is just too long, and the subject too uncool, for anyone to ever make a really good mail client.
/gauntlet thrown down
Whoa… so thats a thing:
Ok really now… who did that? @OtherMichael?
EDIT:
Or am I losing my mind… has this topic always been called “Rule mail-fighting-fancy-spam with an iron fist”? Fuck me. I SWEAR it was something else last time I saw it, I swear… AGH my memory is failing me!
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I’ve got quite the reputation, it seems.
I try not to edit BoingBoing category titles since it will then switch to the dizzy category.
I’m a big fan of notifying a moderator or publisher about a typo.
This does not appear to be a typo correction, however, as the original URL from the blog was https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/spam-fighting-mail-rule
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So… you ignore half of my comment just so you can feel all correct, without having to bother providing support for your claim. Congratulations, you got to make a snide comment about someone on the internets while contributing nothing to to the original topic. I hope that wasn’t the highlight of your day.
It wasn’t me and I have only done it when I caught the odd blank title which makes it kind of hard to check back later cause no text in the bbs for a link. Also I post that hey I fixed it on the BBS side so it is a little more obvious what is going on.
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That’s still 14,300,000 people-using/uses-of (?) Thunderbird, and a top-10 player.
(source)
Isn’t that fun?!!
Pot, kettle – you might be surprised to learn you have many things in common!
Knowing him, it probably was. Getting off a single zinger in a BBS thread on a given day is what he lives for. He’s probably off crying right now, well into his third or fourth lite* beer, wondering why some people have to be so mean all the time and why can’t they just shut the fuck up and will @othermichael ever let me fight my own battles he’s so wordy.
* Lite!!! Ugh. Another thing to feel smug about.
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Make sure your apprentice isn’t secretly building death stars and plotting to kill all of my co-workers?
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I don’t use Mutt because I don’t want the entirety of my mail archive to live only on one of my computers.
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Jeeze, some people would be happy to have someone taking care of the details like that. But here you are, being all picky about it.
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Seriously, did you even see the PowerPoint he put together?
He used g*******d Comic Sans for f**k’s sake.
I trust him with a light saber as much as I can throw a womp rat.
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Like every read-only mailing list. I don’t put whatever-project-announce@github in my address book if I can’t post to it.
Also, anything forwarded to me from a list I’m not on by a friend or colleague would be false-positived by this.
Edit: OT, saying “you’re welcome” before anyone has said “thank you” is something snotty teenagers do, @doctorow. Not a great mannerism for a grown man.
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Mutt does support IMAP y’know.
This is one of my big issues, for you see… I never delete messages. And you can judge all you like but I’m proud of who I am so there. Anyway, my mailbox goes back to 1998 and I can’t / don’t want to store the whole thing on my IMAP server-- I’d like the last year or so on IMAP, and the rest stored locally, but I’d like it all to be seamless. I don’t think it’s much to ask, but no mail client can do this, and newer (post-POP) clients don’t even really have a concept of local mail.
Mutt can do that! Download the old stuff you want to archive locally from your IMAP server and store it somewhere, then when changing folders in mutt, hit c again to chdir to your local maildir. I’m sure you can even set up a softlink or a bookmark or a macro to switch back and forth with one or two strokes.
Well, sure, but that defeats the purposes of the gist I posted above. 
Has someone made a nice GUI for Mutt yet? 
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Since:
- Those guys are measuring client share via opening tracking GIFs, and
- One nice feature of Thunderbird is that it won’t open graphics in an incoming email unless you specifically tell it that it’s OK for that sender, so that you aren’t being tracked by everybody under the sun,
my guess would be that their list understates Thunderbird client share by at least a factor of 5.
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who changed the title the second time?
don’t we have a game for that? @OtherMichael where did that one go?
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