Ironic: showing up 30 minutes early for a doctor's appointment and the doctor is running an hour late.

@amin I’d take the time to learn Go. It’ll pay dividends down the road for you in many ways.

@amin is it good?

@amin @sotolf @aburka I'd use it.

I knew my #zoom H6 would come in handy some day! I recorded my son's middle school band concert last night. I'm now half way through editing the audio using #audacity. Love it!

@amin @rl_dane @cjerrington @dm

I love tomb. Use it with pass on my raspberrypi.

@rockorager
I'm looking into notmuch now, which means I must have been living under a rock for the past 12 years. Watching some videos and learning about it. I'd like to try it with aerc, but I'm running macOS, and it looks like the nixOS install of aerc I'm running doesn't have support for notmuch built in.

I'm wondering if you happen to know if aerc+notmuch can run in macOS, or if I'll need to use a Linux box to play with this?

@rockorager
I recently opened a ticket with Zoho about this. I asked them if they exposed their tags over IMAP. They replied back that they do. So, I pushed a little further and asked them to give me at least a few details of how they do that using the IMAP protocol so that I could pass this information along to a developer on the aerc codebase. They haven't yet answered that request.

Hell, even if you don't take it up, if I could get some guidance from them as to what they're doing and genuinely find out that they're not doing something proprietary to work with tags, I might look into it myself. I'm not sure what aerc is written in, but I've got experience working with python, Go, elixir, C, C++, Java, ruby. javascript/node. I may be able to help out...

@amin

Yes. This goes in your .config/aerc/accounts.conf file:

gpg

pgp-auto-sign = true
pgp-key-id =
pgp-opportunistic-encrypt = true

nm, I got it. :sign and :encrypt are toggles.

Hey, anyone know how to turn off pgp/gpg encryption and signing on the email compose pane in #aerc? I've got my settings configured to do both of those by default, but I'm wondering if there's a way to disable that on a particular outgoing email?

I finally have a workflow for getting my CardDAV contacts into #aerc. It's not pretty, but it works. I'd like to have used vdirsyncer for syncing up my Zoho vcard contacts, but it keeps bombing out on the import. So I had to give up on that.

Instead, whenever I have updates on the Zoho side that I want to get into aerc, I manually export from the web interface of Zoho my contacts. Then I run a Python script I wrote that will convert that file into a directory with vcf files that #khard likes working with. I have aerc configured to use khard to do the search and return results for aerc to display as I compose my email.

It's a pretty easy process even though it's not perfect.

Thanks go to @amin for providing pointers and tools!

@amin

Deluxe Paint, made by Electronic Arts, for the Amiga 1000. 1985. Amiga graphics ruled at the time. Apple, with their Macintosh, could only drool.

Prior to that, any of the Summer Games titles by Epyx for the C64. Can you be a power-user of a game? Yes, I think so! ;)

@amin

Good question! I did a quick search, and I'm not sure. Reading RFC's is like reading Greek sometimes. I'll keep reading.

Another #aerc question. (I'm looking your direction, @amin!) Is there a way in aerc to tag emails? Then bring up a list of emails with a given tag? I don't want to set up folders for this, and tagging should allow for multiple tags on a given message.

I'm able to do this using the Zoho web-based client. But want to do the same thing using aerc.

@amin

This worked for me, thanks! Now if only I can get a tech support response from Zoho for my upload of contacts from local file to their CardDAV server.

Is there a way to use #CardDAV with #aerc?

I can write a script to convert my vcf file into an aerc addresses file, but integration of aerc with a CardDAV server would be ideal. That way, any email addresses I add to the CardDAV would automatically be findable within aerc.

Has this already been done and I'm just missing it?

@rl_dane @amin
At my work, "ask" is a noun. As in, "So the ask is that you do xyz by tomorrow, even though we realize it's humanly impossible."

@amin
Ah, got it, thank you!

@amin
hmmmm, that prompts me for the URL to open. The URL is displayed in the email. So how do I get that URL placed into the :open-link prompt? Aside from using mouse, again.