Alpine VS aerc

Alpine

Alpine is a fast, easy to use email client that is suitable for both the inexperienced email user...

aerc

Highly efficient and extensible email client for the terminal

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Alpine and aerc)

aerc

Email

44 44%

Email

56% 56

Email Clients

41 41%

Email Clients

59% 59

Calendar

49 49%

Calendar

51% 51

Productivity

100 100%

Productivity

0% 0

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, aerc seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 18 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Alpine mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Alpine yet. Tracking of Alpine recommendations started around Mar 2021.

aerc mentions (18)

Email and Git = <3
You have some points, for some I do think it isn't as bad as you write. FWIW, some comments inline. > - You can't subscribe to a single PR/bug/feature-request thread. Subscription to the mailing list is all-or-nothing. And no, setting up email filters is not a reasonable solution. You can use tools like public-inbox or lei, the former is hosted for bigger projects on https://lore.kernel.org/ If you're interested,... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
git-appraise – Distributed Code Review for Git
> Another problem is how badly email threading is displayed in these clients. Email UI is still abysmal. Fair point. However, given that the current alternative is "use another service entirely (e.g. GitHub)", I think it would be fair to assume that devs could choose a good e-mail client and learn how to format such e-mails correctly. It works for Linux, for instance. I started using Aerc, and I love it:... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
A Quick Guide to Mutt
For fans of Mutt/NeoMutt looking to try something new, I've been getting a lot of mileage out of Aerc[1] and can recommend it as a somewhat more approachable alternative for the Mutt-curious. [1] https://aerc-mail.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
Codeberg (a non profit code hosting platform) launches Forgejo (a fork of gitea)
Try aerc, I recently set it up and it was really easy to do. The only tricky part was making it so my password is read from the KDE wallet instead of being stored as plain text in the config file. Source: over 1 year ago
it's not a text editor if i can't use vim bindings
I'm not sure how much longer, but at least for me aerc still works with Outlook e-mails. Source: over 1 year ago