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mu4e is pretty good - http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html

the configuration is a bit of a pain, but once you've gotten past the setup it's a very nice way to do your email from inside emacs

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Funny you mention it. To be honest, I am not asking about the mail indexer clients in this space (mu4e and notmuch.el). However, to address your concern, mu4e had even worse memory consumption than notmuch (of course my opinion but I tried both of them on and off for the lat few months, and I have to admit indexing and Emacs client memory consumption notmuch was much better in my experience).

Anyway, still need direct access to maildirs because these indexing systems do not delete the email out of your maildirs. I need to spruce up every once in a while.

Thanks for the recommendation though.

I've been using mu4e for over a year now and have been very happy with it. For some reason I just couldn't get my head around GNUS workflow and concepts. mu4e just seemed more normal to me, but with great search.

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