My personal experience is that, I like how mutt looks and the fact that I'm able to deal with emails in CLI. The reason I'm not using it as my main email client (yet) is that I can't remember all shortcuts and I don't know enough what exactly each keystroke does to my emails and email server. These can all be fixed by reading docs and more practice though. I guess it's the same thing as vim. Once you are used to it, it becomes the favorite.
And like vim, you will probably never use, nor need, all the shortcuts available. I use about a dozen keys in mutt, some of which are custom binding I use to send messages to separate maildir in one keystroke.
All my emails get into my Inbox (except for bugzilla stuff). I go through my Inbox several times a day, and as I read messages, I press 'o', 'n', 'e', or 'a' to send the message in one of the four folders I mostly use. For the rest, I sort it manually using the 's' key.
This way, my Inbox is always empty. Or if it's not, I know it's a message I need to get back to later on. There's usually no more than a handful of those.
Granted, you can do that with any mail client. But mutt is particularly well suited for the job.
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My personal experience is that, I like how mutt looks and the fact that I'm able to deal with emails in CLI. The reason I'm not using it as my main email client (yet) is that I can't remember all shortcuts and I don't know enough what exactly each keystroke does to my emails and email server. These can all be fixed by reading docs and more practice though. I guess it's the same thing as vim. Once you are used to it, it becomes the favorite.
And like vim, you will probably never use, nor need, all the shortcuts available. I use about a dozen keys in mutt, some of which are custom binding I use to send messages to separate maildir in one keystroke.
All my emails get into my Inbox (except for bugzilla stuff). I go through my Inbox several times a day, and as I read messages, I press 'o', 'n', 'e', or 'a' to send the message in one of the four folders I mostly use. For the rest, I sort it manually using the 's' key. This way, my Inbox is always empty. Or if it's not, I know it's a message I need to get back to later on. There's usually no more than a handful of those.
Granted, you can do that with any mail client. But mutt is particularly well suited for the job.