On 26/07/21 23:56, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > Hi Atharva and Shourya, > [...] >> Thunderbird is more like what I am looking for, which has a convenient >> GUI with loaded batteries, while still being more configurable than Apple >> Mail and actually handling threading properly. This is what I >> currently use, >> but my laptop is unhappy with it, as it eats up around 40-50% of the CPU >> usage in the background. It also eats up more battery, almost as much as >> my browser. This is apparently a bug that’s been unresolved for many >> years >> now. Git developers reading this: if you have personal recommendations >> for something that is easy to use but also lightweight, please do let >> me know! (and it needs to work on macOS) > > That's bad. After a long time of switching, Thunderbird is what worked for > me too (after some config tweaks, of course). Evolution was close but it > had some bugs with the composition window. Otherwise Evolution was good, > light-weight and is well suited for plain-text emails. But looks like > it only works for Unix-like distributions[1]. So, its not an option for > you. > > I don't own a Mac and haven't used one for personal use. So, I don't > have great recommendations. Anyways, light-weight reminds me of mutt[2]. > But its likely one of the non-GUI clients that might also need a bit of > configuring. > > In case you could consider alternative solutions for filtering e-mail, > there's the filtering option of Gmail[3] which could help. You could > filter emails based on certain criteria and send them to specific > folders[4] which could help you with managing emails to an extent. > I heavily rely on this feature to keep my Inbox clutter-free to > an extent. > > [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_email_clients#General > > [2]: http://www.mutt.org/ > > [3]: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6579?hl=en > > [4]: > https://www.gtricks.com/gmail/organize-gmail-by-sending-emails-directly-to-a-folder-label/ Thanks for the information. I do use the filtering of Gmail, but I remember back when I used a non-GUI client I had all sorts issues with mapping the newly made Gmail directories with folders on my system. I believe you have to configure one each time, which is fine when you don't have to do it too, often but I had given up after the third time. >> I just use a straightforward { editor + MUA + git } stack and go with >> the flow! > > For me it has mostly been this but with some help from tools. Many > people have found GitGitGadget[5] useful for sending patches to mailing > list based workflow from a GitHub PR like interface (Thanks to Dscho!) > You could've heard of it before but you could give it a try and > see if it helps improve things for you :-) I appreciate the utility of GitGitGadget, and I thought I'd end up using that when contributing, but I found email to be simpler and more intuitive (at the time, it felt less intimidating to use). > I've heard there's git send-series[6] which says that it helps > with managing patch series. I haven't used it myself, though. > > These are some tools that come to mind. I believe others could > likely provide better insights. > > [5]: https://gitgitgadget.github.io/ > > [6]: https://github.com/felipec/git-send-series Thanks, I'll check these out.
