[VM] mu4e

[Robert Goldman]

> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 14:34:47 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Rene <jl...@yahoo.com>
> To: viewma...@nongnu.org
> Subject: Re: [VM] Are there plans to release 8.2?
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> John Stoffel <john@...> writes:
>
>> Personally, I've been thinking that it's time to finally drop VM and
>> move to some other mail reader with good IMAP support, probably mutt.
>> But the hassle of either A) learning new key bindings or B) changing
>> mutt to have all the emacs/vm bindings has been holding me back.
>
> Has anybody considered switching to mu4e?
>
> http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html
>
> How soft/hard is the transition from vm?

I looked into this briefly. I found this, like mutt, to be very
cumbersome with a framework where you have a large number of IMAP folders.

The problem is that when you operate on IMAP folders (e.g., you decide
you need to see/subscribe one that you haven't been subscribed to), it's
a very cumbersome process. You need to close your MUA and then start
hacking offlineimap or fetchmail config files.

This feels very clunky compared to a modern program that interactively
manages folder subscription/unsubscription/move/etc. At least to me
"folder management" doesn't seem like a task that should be outside the
coverage of the MUA and in the land of UNIX config scripts and editors.

Cheers,
r