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+# Mail
+
+Basic setup for receiving, managing, and viewing emails. This really just boils
+down to installing the packages, as the configurate (like in most of this book)
+is contained within my dotfiles.
+
+## Mail Submission Agent
+
+Sending mail is the least complex part of this setup, and is entirely handled by
+`msmtp`.
+
+```console
+pacman -S msmtp
+```
+
+## Mail Retrieval Agent
+
+Install isync (provides `mbsync`) for actually syncing to imap server,
+goimapnotify to only run mbsync when new mail is available,
+
+```console
+pacman -S isync goimapnotify notify-send
+```
+
+### Notifications
+
+The `maildir-notify` script can provide notification for new mail and can be
+enabled via the `maildir-notify.service` user unit (both from my dotfiles).
+
+The notification script requires `notify-send`.
+
+```console
+pacman -S libnotify
+```
+
+## Mail User Agent
+
+Provided that both the MSA and MRA are both configured, aerc can provide a nice
+front-end for composing mail and interacting with the maildir.
+
+```console
+pacman -S aerc
+```
+
+### Optionally install handlers for various content types
+
+While the aerc package provides a set of various formatters that work pretty
+well out of the box, a few content types can be rendered with better results via
+3rd party tools.
+
+The formatters provided by aerc, as well as the following 3rd party ones, are
+already configured in the `aerc.conf` contained in my dotfiles.
+
+#### HTML
+
+HTML can be rendered using w3d. `socksify`, provided by dante, is used to
+prevent emails from phoning home.
+
+```console
+pacman -S dante w3d
+```
+
+#### Documents
+
+`pdftotext` (provided by poppler) and `docx2txt` can be used to render PDFs and
+word documents, respectively.
+
+```console
+pacman -S poppler docx2txt
+```
+
+#### Misc
+
+`bat` is used for most everything else
+
+```console
+pacman -S bat
+```