Console mail client?

Question

linux

On my laptop, I aim to create an environment that minimizes mouse use.
I am using awesome wm and firefox+vimperator. Unfortunately, in the case of mail, I have not yet worked out an acceptable solution. Now I use either Yandex.Mail (web-face) or Thunderbird (and even Muttator) does not help ...
My current goal is to find the perfect console mail client.
I set up offlineimap + msmtp, and now with Maildir present with my mail, I'm looking for a suitable MUA.
My requirements for an email client look like this:
1) Quick search a la search in the web version (if possible, better)
2) Fast work with a mailbox for 45k+ letters
3) Adequate contact book with auto-completion at least in some form (a la web interface)
4) Labels\tags
5) A vim-like interface is highly desirable, and of course vim as a text editor
. I dug up the following options:
1) Sup. Everyone writes boiling water from it, but it has not been supported since 2011, I could not run it normally
2) Mutt. Very popular, but the latest version dates back to 2010. There is a version of mutt-kz with notmuch support, but what is its advantage over notmuch then?
3) Not much. They write that they were inspired by Sup. Notmuch is tightly integrated with the search engine and has a ton of frontends: notmuchmail.org/frontends/ . I haven't found the perfect one among them yet.
Actually, the question is: can you advise me something specific (from this list or not)? Maybe you used something, but were disappointed? Any information would be helpful!

Answer 1

I have been using mutt for several years, everything is fine with everything. There was also a task to get away from the mouse and awesome was also chosen.
You can see my mutt configs here github.com/pomeo/conf/tree/master/mutt
Also, mail is received via offlineimap, msmtp will not be needed, mutt can send it by itself.
In the config, the muttrc{1,3} files are different boxes, it turned out to be more convenient to call mutt -F muttrc2 than to block one config for all boxes and switch inside.
You didn’t seem to notice, but offlineimap can’t create Cyrillic folders, you need such a crutch notes.sovechkin.com/offlineimap_and_cyrillic.html My
contacts are substituted directly from Google contacts using pypi.python.org/pypi/goobook/, everything is as it should be with auto-completion, start typing, press tab and get contacts from Google. I don’t know about Yandex, but look at the source, maybe everything is easy there.
As for the speed, there are no 45+ letters, but one of the boxes is from 2005 and has never deleted anything from there. The first time it does not start quickly, it is the start, it flies further inside. Subsequent launches are almost instantaneous.
html email shows me using w3m. Attached files are also no problem. Well, vim as an editor.
I won’t say anything about the search, I don’t use it, I rarely search through the web interface.

Answer 2

I also have mutt + vim. search is very good when you have to use other clients (web, android, macosx) - then search is what is missing the most. 15K emails in Maildir opens (now checked) in half a second. labels/tags is the X-Label field in the header. You can search and filter by it.

Answer 3

Alpine seems to be fine with that too.

Answer 4

I've been using Mew in Emacs for several years now and am quite happy with it.

Answer 5

I am using Cone