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Comment by lwhsiao | Hacker News Reader

Love the recent efforts on building new terminal clients. I'm excited to try meli out. I've been using https://aerc-mail.org/ as a daily driver for several months, but excited to try some others in this space. I found mutt a bit intimidating to configure, where aerc and meli seem more straightforward.

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Thanks for recommending aerc. I gave it a try for my Postgres contributions workflow, and it was very easy to use it. Having tried mutt, it was surprisingly easy to configure aerc to work with GMail.

I am able to induce a crash pretty reliably (by pressing J or K at a fast rate), and probably there are other minor bugs hidden. But aerc is good enough to be my daily driver for my workflow.

Eh wow thanks for then tip (aerc) beeing a user of neomutt i definetly will try that one out.

how to install aerc thanks

From the release tarball:

## Installation

### Binary Packages

Recent versions of aerc are available on:

- [Alpine] - [Arch] - [Debian] - [Fedora] - [macOS through Homebrew]

And likely other platforms.

### From Source

Install the dependencies:

- go (>=1.16) (Go versions are supported until their end-of-life; support for older versions may be dropped at any time due to incompatibilities or newer required language features.) - [scdoc](https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc)

Then compile aerc:

    $ make

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