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Mu4e
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UI optimized for speed
The UI is designed to allow for quick keystrokes to get around and is pretty clean. Header View: Message View:
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SharpAmaethon's Experience
It's fast, with decent org-mode integration.
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Asynchronous
Heavy actions never block emacs, unlike most other emacs email clients.
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Fully Search Based
Mu4e has no folders or other organizational tools, rather it relies on very fast search queries to help you find your mail.
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Can write rich text emails
Using the (beta) org mode, Mu4e can compose fully rich text emails.
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Built-in Autocomplete
Doesn't require you to import address books for autocomplete, learns from your emails just like Gmail.
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Nice UI
Has enough UI polish to make day-to-day use bearable. Shows nested folders, threaded conversations and Face/X-Face headers etc. It also has decent keybindings.
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Freezes Emacs when checking for new mail
From mihai.bazon.net: Because Elisp is not a multithreaded language, it kind of freezes while checking for new mail. This can be bad if you're using the same Emacs instance for other purposes, like, writing code. :-) Not the case for me—I don't mind starting a new Emacs instance especially for WL; until one week ago I was using Thunderbird, which needs tons of RAM. Emacs is a lot lighter.
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Fantastic IMAP support
The key differentiator for Wanderlust is it's reliable and fast IMAP support. It also supports a wide range of other protocols: NNTP POP(POP3/APOP) MH Maildir
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Integrates nicely with existing Emacs packages
From mihai.bazon.net: I'm currently using it with BBDB (for keeping my address book), Flyspell (spell checking as you type), Mailcrypt (digital signatures and encryption, here's my public key btw). Can be integrated with Bogofilter, SpamAssassin, and probably whatever you want for spam filtering.
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Customizable with Lisp
The implementation is in elisp only, but allows you to customize the client in any way you wish.
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Everything is customizable
Yep, really. From Outlook-mode, where Outlook-typical TOFU mails are “repaired”, up to a high-sophisticated scoring and SPAM filtering, footer lines with quotes, rules depending on the recipient, MIME formatting, boxquotes, etc.
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Difficult documentation
Originally a newsgroup reader, so its documentation uses Usenet terminology for everything -- which is confusing.
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OrganizedMandulis's Experience
I used Gnus for several years. It is a highly configurable mail processor with low CPU consumption.
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It supports IMAP and POP3
… but you can use DavMail to connect to Exchange server via EWS.
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