On: Vmail - A Gmail client in Vim

[chuhnk]

mutt + imap + gmail = awesome.

There is just something about a simple plain text email interface with the power of an editor that makes life so much easier.

[badwetter → chuhnk]

Of course that should be mutt + gmail. One doesn't need to use an IMAP app, mutt has this built in now. It's pretty good.

[rphillips → chuhnk]

I have found gmail's IMAP service to be slow (only fetching 100 headers at a time). Perhaps others have had a better experience.

[bostonvaulter2 → chuhnk]

Does that setup handle gmail's concept of labeling? Such as archiving messages?

[koenigdavidmj → bostonvaulter2]

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77657 is a nifty little chart showing how to accomplish Gmail actions from within the IMAP client of your choice.

If you delete a message from the inbox, then it gets archived. If you move it to [Gmail]/Spam or [Gmail]/Trash and then delete it, then it will really delete it.

[tvon → bostonvaulter2]

As I understand it, IMAP is bolted on to gmail so labeling is never quite right in any client.

[rue → bostonvaulter2]

Tangentially, http://sup.rubyforge.org implements a GMail-like interface, full-text search and such but works with (essentially) any source.

[abhiyerra → bostonvaulter2]

I was recently figuring this out. Here is my config: http://bit.ly/fRpcs7

[dan00 → chuhnk]

mutt + gmail + offlineimap is even better.