Aerc has been my daily driver for a long, long time. I use it with IMAP (GMail and other reasons) but its completely usable with local mail directories.
- I have redefined the Aerc key mapping with a set of Vim-like keybindings, since I am too old to learn new keybindings. And I bet now I as fast as possible slashing through countless mails…
- I configured Aerc to work properly with Gmail and Imapfilter.
- I created some filters that I missed from any mail client I ever tried (at least two keystrokes away). Like:
ff = :filter -f<space> "{{index (.From | emails) 0}}" <Enter> # filter mails from current sender
fs = :filter -H<space> subject:"{{.SubjectBase}}" <Enter> # Show Mails with the same subject
fS = :filter -H<space> subject:<Space> # filter mails with subject e.g. "fs foo" filters mails with subject containing "foo"