- Can easily deal with large volumes of email -- quickly tab through unread messages
- Highlights text from previous emails in a thread, making it easy to see who replied to what
- You can also set up highlighting for diffs, making it easy to review attached patches and change snippets
- Powerful search via external indexers (mu, notmuch)
- Keyboard navigation for everything (if you're using vim and tmux, then you're already spending most of your time with your hands on the keyboard, and having to fish for the mouse just to quicky reply to an email starts to feel really slow).
For handling HTML email, I use a two-pronged approach: for most email I use links browser to automatically render HTML as ASCII so I can view it directly in mutt; for email that has images or otherwise cannot be rendered sensibly with links, I have mapped a key to open it in a graphical browser (dwb for fast launching or Firefox+vimperator if I need to deal with login forms, etc).
- Can easily deal with large volumes of email -- quickly tab through unread messages
- Highlights text from previous emails in a thread, making it easy to see who replied to what
- You can also set up highlighting for diffs, making it easy to review attached patches and change snippets
- Powerful search via external indexers (mu, notmuch)
- Keyboard navigation for everything (if you're using vim and tmux, then you're already spending most of your time with your hands on the keyboard, and having to fish for the mouse just to quicky reply to an email starts to feel really slow).
For handling HTML email, I use a two-pronged approach: for most email I use links browser to automatically render HTML as ASCII so I can view it directly in mutt; for email that has images or otherwise cannot be rendered sensibly with links, I have mapped a key to open it in a graphical browser (dwb for fast launching or Firefox+vimperator if I need to deal with login forms, etc).
EDIT: formatting