 All right, I think I'm gonna do this video as clickbait. I'm gonna say top five reasons my email system is better than yours. I know that's the most absurd flex ever, but we've talked about recently one of the reasons you might want an offline and extensible system for doing any of your files, but especially email. Nearly everyone nowadays uses web clients for their email and I wanna talk about some of the advantages of my setup. I'll say five advantages. I actually haven't even thought up what the five things are, but I'll do it. I'll explain the differences in the course of this video. First off, if you are new to this channel, absolutely check out Mutt Wizard. I'll put the link to this in the description. This is a script that I wrote a bit ago that actually gives you my email setup that I'm gonna explain in this video and it's fantastic. Use Mutt Wizard if you're interested in anything I'm talking about. This is not a flex video. It's ultimately an invitation to try this yourself, but I wanna explain why I have the email setup that I do. And Mutt Wizard is very nice. It has documentation, just ran. Install it, here's the installation instructions. Just clone it, install it, pseudo make install it. And here are the dependencies. Get all these four and I actually recommend, you should probably just install all of these as well. Definitely links and yeah, just install all the optional dependencies too. And I plan on doing other videos on my email setup, but let me get to the top five things. First off, when I started using Linux, I hated having to use any kind of, like I was starting to use these command line applications that worked really well. They're very efficient, they're very lightweight, but I was looking for one with email. And the one that I ran across is of course Mutt. And there's another one called Pine. There are a couple other ones, but Mutt is fantastic because it's minimal. That's number one. It is not a 200 megabyte program like Thunderbird. You don't have to open up your browser to use Mutt and it actually just works like this. You open up Mutt, there's my email. I don't have to wait any time, it's just there. I can easily scroll through my emails and do whatever. There's just a bunch of junk emails, don't worry about that. Even though I have a password for an account here, it doesn't matter. It's nice having a minimal system, no stupid, I don't know, not running JavaScript or logging in. Number one minimalism. And it still does, mind you, it still does everything that any other email setup has. I can still view images and stuff like that. I can still attach things. I can do all that kind of stuff. And there are actually many more ways to do it on the command line. So that's number one, minimalism. Number two, I wanna have offline email. That is a fan tag. That's one of the top five reasons that mine is better than yours. Because when I'm not connected to the internet, I still have all of my email. Because I use a program called iSync. Again, this is actually automatically configured by MUTWizard. So if you want this, you can just use MUTWizard. Now, MUT itself can log in to, it can log into a server and you can view mail remotely. But I use iSync to actually download all the mail from all my accounts to my local machine. And I have MUT looking at that. So there really is, there's no lag whatsoever. It's just on your own machine. It's all indexed. I mean, I literally have 100,000 emails and it is so easy to go through them. It's just great having them. The other benefit of having offline email is if you're paranoid about like, let's say Google or your email provider looking at your stuff, it's frankly better if you download your email and then move them to a directory that you don't sync with, you know, just move them to some other directory. You can configure that with MUT. So MUT can look at it, but it isn't shared with your remote, your actual email server. That's another big benefit. So it's better for your privacy. It's better for your speed. You don't have to worry about being connected to the internet. It's nice having it. It's easy for me to archive things. Try to archive your Gmail, okay? That's a big annoyance. I don't even know how, maybe Gmail has something for that. Maybe you can just download mail. I'm not even sure. But if you use iSync, you can automatically download your email. I can use rSync to like sync it to some other drive or something like that. Keep it all updated. And it's very easy. It's easy. Number one, minimalism. Number two, keeping things offline. Number three, we'll say extensibility. Here's the other thing. If you have your own email client, you might worry about, oh, I don't have some of the nice little clickable features that Gmail has. Well, one thing I've talked about in other videos is I actually even have stuff like this. For example, this is a script I have that I can build into MUT. Because MUT is extensible, you can have MUT pipe the contents of your email to a script and run a script. So for example, this script is for banning emails. It was very easy to write, if you know what you're doing. And what it just does is, if I get an email from a spam address, I can just press a keyboard shortcut in MUT that automatically runs this script on the email file. And what this script does, it actually logs into my email server and blocks that email address or blocks that domain. So I don't have to worry about spam from them. So that's another, and this is just one example. You might say, oh, Gmail can do that. I can, yeah, I know Gmail can do that. But I'm saying anything else is the case as well. Like I can actually have, I don't have this set up right now, but I used to have notifications show up on my screen that didn't just have like, oh, you have mail, but it listed out the first portion of that mail address or the contents of the mail. So you can easily script things. Everything is very extensible in this kind of email setup. So those are three things so far. Again, minimalism. Again, number three is extensibility. What was the second? Oh yeah, having offline mail. Now I gotta make up at least two other ones. Okay, what am I gonna say here? Well, I don't know, there's a like, okay, I know what number four is. Number four is it abides by the UNIX philosophy, which is no meme. I mean, sure, that's sort of related to extensibility, but let me talk about this as well. Okay, look at some of the programs I have in here. For example, A-Book. A-Book is a nice little program. I haven't done a video on it just because if I actually opened it up, you'd see all my contacts. I don't necessarily wanna do that. All their email addresses and phone numbers. But A-Book is a very nice command line application. It's just an address book. You can keep your friends and their addresses and their home addresses, their phone numbers, their email addresses, all this kind of stuff organized. Well, MUT is also extensible. It can actually use that as well. So a lot of people will be like, oh, how do I sync up my Gmail contacts? No, no, none of that kind of stuff. I use this program A-Book, which is also very extensible. It can be used by MUT. It can be used by other programs. And so you don't have to worry about, oh, well, I have some synced contacts with Google. I have some contacts that I have offline. I have some I have synced with Apple. No stupid stuff. Don't trust anyone to sync your stuff other than yourself. It is nice, this setup is extensible because I can use a program like A-Book for this extra stuff for free. I don't have to build it in. I just say in my MUT RC, oh, use this A-Book command to get whenever I tab complete a name, it will actually run A-Book and get someone's completed name. It's very nice, okay? That's sweet. Additionally, not much. Same thing, not much is actually for indexing mail. It can sort your mail. I mean, again, like it's built in, since I have offline mail, I can actually use not much to sort it, put it in different categories. I actually use not much for searching the content of mails. You can have not much kind of, basically, what's what I'm looking at? Not archives, I don't know. It makes it searchable. There's a word I'm looking for who cares. Either way, all of this stuff is extensible. Same thing with MSMTP, okay? This is for sending mail, MUT Wizard uses it, but additionally, I can actually just send them, I can pipe a mail into MSMTP and it will automatically send it. I could send it from the command line. So the nice thing about my email setup in terms of it abiding by the UNIX philosophy is that all of these different programs, they actually do other stuff as well, okay? Very, very nice, okay? And the number fifth thing about why my email setups, I don't know, just because it's better, just deal with it. It's memes, I don't know who cares. My email setups better, you all know it and actually you don't have to feel inadequate because you can get it with MUT Wizard. Just install MUT Wizard and have it configure it for you and I'll probably be doing some videos on emails pretty soon, but yeah, raising your awareness of MUT Wizard if you don't know about it, but check it out.