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  One side effect of me finding out about and subsequently getting
  onto SDF that I did not expect was that I got really into emails
  for a few days there. For some reaon I had never really thought 
  about CLI email clients until using them on SDF, and it didn't 
  take long before I started thinking about using one on my home
  machine as well. And before I knew it, I was completely
  migrating away from Gmail (finally!) and setting up two remote
  mailboxes for my own domains. Well, it took me a while and a bit
  of research before landing on how I wanted it to be set up, but
  the entire process was overall fun anyway (and i learned a
  litle bit more about how email works in the process). 
 
  Although, contrary to what I just said about learning along the 
  process, I did end up using neomutt as my client and then using 
  mutt-wizard to set up the connection to the first mailbox as 
  well as some more personally intuitive keybinds. But the second
  mailbox I largely set up manually. I essentially have a bunch of
  mail aliases set up with my DNS provider that are pointing at 
  one of these two mailboxes, and then on my end I use imapfilter
  (a program I absolutely love, by the way) to sort the incoming
  mail into folders based on what alias it was addressed to. This
  way I can keep everything nice and separate, and it makes it 
  easy to know which address I should use to respond any given 
  piece of mail. Then I sync the remote mailbox state down to my 
  local mailboxes, and open neomutt. This is all aliased to "mutt"
  so that it happens for me automatically when I open my email, 
  and every time I open neomutt any local changes I've made (like
  deleting mail) get synced back up to the remote mailboxes. It's
  really, really nice. Having effectively as many "accounts" as I 
  need for each specific purpose is very convenient. 

  Now, part of the reason that this is such a huge improvement for 
  me is that I NEVER took good care of my emails before this. Way
  more Gmail accounts than anyone should have, using them willy 
  nilly all over the Internet, thousands of unread junk emails 
  piling up. It was horrid. The fact that I've put this effort 
  into an email setup that registers to my mind as novel and fun
  means now I get EXCITED to look at my email and set up new spam
  filters for the onslaught of garbage being forwarded in from my
  old accounts (and finally unsubscribing to all this nonsense, 
  too). My inbox is empty each day and it feels GOOD. And because
  of how I've got it set up, it's barely costing me anything too! 
  So yeah. Turns out emails can be fun and cool and useful instead
   of a wasteland full of spam you have to crawl through 
  occassionally. Who would've thought? 

  ruleofsix                                             2024/09/10
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