Re: Is anybody using "NotMuch" as an email client?

[Andreas Eder]

On So 14 Jul 2024 at 02:46, Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de> wrote:

> Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:
>
>>> Is "POP3" supported?   Decades ago I opted for "POP3" because "IMAP" (at
>>> least then) was unable to do things the way I wanted them done.
>>
>> Notmuch doesn't do much: it doesn't do any internet protocols. It's
>> basically just a database and a command-line tool for that. Other tools
>> are needed, like "fetchmail" or some IMAP synchronizing tool for getting
>> the mail, Notmuch for indexing and searching the mail files, Notmuch
>> Emacs (or other client) for user interface and mail sending (SMTP).
>>
>> Notmuch Emacs client can be configured to join the parts together but
>> user must write a "hook script" for getting the mail and putting the
>> files in the right place. The script could handle spam filtering, for
>> example. Mine uses "bogofilter" for spam and does some mail tagging like
>> adding "mute" or "follow" tags for mail I don't want or want to see.
>
> I want to add that Notmuch much doesn't do pop but using either a POP3 
> synchronizing client
> or a client synchronizes against IMAP will pretty much keep your POP3
> centered workflow.
> However if you also use IMAP it gets messy or at least conflicts with
> the server centered workflow as Notmuch only indexes emails from a file
> system and not against an IMAP server.

I have it runnung with both several POP and IMAP accounts without any
problem.
I use  mpop for the POP accounts and mbsync for IMAP. I use a shell
script with crontab to fetch/synchronize the mails.
That works without problems.

'Andreas
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