[kwlug-disc] Collecting opinions about chat and mail console clients

[Chris Frey]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 12:14:02PM -0500, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 
> > Heavily influenced by yesterday meeting, I want to ask about your
> > experience of console clients for chat and mail. What experience do you
> > find best? Email and/or chat.
> 
> Clarifying,
> 
>  - what email experience in console you find best?

Unfortunately I missed yesterday's meeting, so I don't fully understand
the context, but...

For email, mutt all the way, with supporting programs I wrote myself, and
a nice procmail recipe grown organically over the years.


>  - what chat experience in console you find best?

irssi for irc stuff.

Mattermost is nice if you need team based work with saved conversations
and a good web client.  We've used it in the flightgear project during
the hackathon, and it worked well.

Been trying out nheko on the matrix network for chat.  I think this
is the future: chat, SMS replacement, phone and video replacement,
on a decentralized network.

- Chris