I had to use Davmail to get it to work. Now I forward everything, so I don’t run Davmail anymore, but it worked well enough while I needed it: https://lambdaland.org/posts/2023-05-03_email_with_outlook/
Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhh… I can run things like cal
or julia
and it handles all the escape codes seamlessly. Wow. Totally sold now.
Thank you! That’s helpful. I’m a little confused: what benefit does turning the eshell buffer into an eat terminal give you? Better perf? I’m still new to eshell and stuff.
This is my current config: set TERM to “xterm”, and fix the otherwise impossible-to-see ANSI blue: