I used to use mutt and bind a keyboard shortcut to pipe HTML messages to w3m.

I miss Pine too. I could read/file/delete scores of plaintext emails in seconds using single keystrokes.

Every email client I've used since Pine has been better at dealing with all the stuff we've bolted on to email (HTML, attachments, calendar invites...) but none of them have been as efficient at the core tasks of email as Pine was.

What sort of keystrokes? The Fastmail web interface uses single keystrokes for interacting with mail, which is very handy.

You could give my email client https://github.com/d99kris/nmail a shot. It does basic html email parsing (leveraging w3m and pandoc) and its user interface is inspired by pine.

mutt is alive and well, it's all I use for email.

At work I'm forced to use the unusable gmail website, ugh.

Curious what's unusable about gmail. I love the UI plus I also love the sidebar with tasks, calendar, etc.

For me outlook is the real pain, I just redirect my emails there to my gmail.

Gmail is not a real email client; it lacks basic commands such as mail bouncing. Perhaps worst of all, it has no concept of conversation threads, as I demonstrate here:

https://lwn.net/Articles/837960/

Huh that's really interesting. I have used mutt before, and I hated how it handled replies and that was the reason I returned to plain gmail.

I guess it's a matter of taste.

You can parse html emails with it by piping to w3m or using pandoc

Pine is not dead for me yet. I use alpine as daily driver, although the releases are not that often.