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A decent alternative to thunderbird? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just want a mail client and not all of the other features.

Possibly FOSS and from terminal.

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (6 children)

For FOSS and from the terminal, 'mutt' is the go-to, as far as I'm aware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (3 children)

My only concern with mutt is that AFAIK it stores passwords in clear. any way to get around that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago (1 children)

you can use pass password manager

source "echo 'set my_pass = `pass -- mail/[email protected]`' |"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago (1 children)

also, there is an example of using gpg which I used for a while in here: https://smalldata.tech/blog/2016/09/10/gmail-with-mutt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Thanks for sharing , I was only using pass for neomutt. Removed that dependency now !

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Not really. The client needs to send your password to the server to login. The alternatives are using a keyring to store the passwords or asking for the password each time. Really just use full disk encryption and it isn't a serious issue.

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