Terminal Email：适合各种系统的终端邮件客户端
Terminal Email: terminal email clients for every system
一位使用 Emacs 三十年的资深用户推荐在 Emacs Lisp 编写的 VM 中处理邮件，称其配合 Personality Crisis 和 mairix 等工具可借助内置 W3M 浏览器引擎渲染 HTML 邮件。VM 支持键盘操作将链接发送到本地浏览器、打开图片和附件、按收件人自动调整发件人行、按条件归档邮件并快速搜索，用户可自行用 Emacs Lisp 扩展功能。
I've been using Emacs continuously for three decades, 99.9999% of the time text-only (whether Linux console, X terminal console, xterm, or SSH client) on a remote server. My email client is VM, written in Emacs Lisp. I've used it to read mail for almost as long as I've used Emacs. VM (and ancillary tools, like Personality Crisis and mairix)
* does a great of job displaying HTML messages with Emacs's integrated W3M browser engine. For the very few that it doesn't, one keystroke sends the message to my web browser running locally.
* sends URLs I select (all from the keyboard) to the web browser (it doesn't use the add-number method; rather, W3M's built-in navigation keystrokes are available, including Tab and Shift-Tab for moving between links)
* opens images and attachments
* auto-adjusts the From: line of outgoing messages depending on the recipient
* archives messages to various folders using various criteria
* searches my archived mail at lightning speed
Of course, I can write Emacs Lisp code of my own to extend any or all of the above.
VM isn't perfect but, overall, I really feel like I have a superpower for email handling with it.
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