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Open-source superhuman email client? I don't know... Maybe the author is not aware of mutt: http://www.mutt.org/ (or neomutt: https://neomutt.org/). Which in my opinion is way way closer to "superhuman".

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Or Aerc! https://aerc-mail.org/

I saw it a couple of times popping up on HN but never tried it (and forgot its name). It looks neat. Definetly deserves to be tried out!

damn, this looks pretty cool, I might use my mouse a little too much for this but will give this a spin alongside mutt and see how they compare!

Do you daily drive Aerc? How's the experience been?

I do, backed by mbsync and notmuch. I've tried most email clients and aerc is what's stuck around for the past few years.

If you're looking for something more graphical/visual, Asteroid's worth a try, too.

I do, with mbsync for offline sync. It is great, also with the git email workflow! The author (Drew Devault) has a few videos showing how to use it with git that got me into it.

I am actually not aware of mutt, but now that two others have mentioned it, I will definitely take a look!

Thanks!

do you use it? What do you use it most for?

I've stopped using it so maybe not the best person to contribute an answer, but I used it most for purely terminal, purely keyboard driven email.

Being able to do things on a headless VM over SSH is very useful to me. At one point I even dispensed with a graphical environment on my Linux machine, and just used tmux and a pseudo terminal!

Given my use case, I don't think the command line aspect is worth targeting for you in any way, but the keyboard only definitely would be! That doesn't mean it can't support a mouse, but if it can be completely driven with just the keyboard, that is a massive selling point to me.

Awesome work by the way! Really cool to see someone building an open source Superhuman!

Mutt is very well known. People are very opinionated about the way they use email. If you want to build an email client, I would go familiarize yourself with the massively popular mail clients like mutt, Thunderbird, Outlook. A lot of effort has been spent learning how to do email.

Yeap, have used thunderbird an outlook.

Email client are a lot like pokemons, trying to collect them all!

What do you use today? And how do you find it?

All that text and not a single screenshot. What does it actually look and feel like to use?

If you ever used vim, then that is what mutt is to email. You need to learn it and configure it, which can take some time, same as emacs or vim.

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