Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

[Kusoneko <kusoneko@kusoneko.moe>]

Jul 31, 2023 13:23:21 Matt Connell <matt@connell.tech>:

> On Mon, 2023-07-31 at 20:16 +0300, Alexe Stefan wrote:
>>> Normally I would be in the chorus of "why do I need a whole entire
>>> web
>>> engine for an email client" but I'm also in the group of people who
>>> knows full well what the answer is.
>> 
>> What is the answer?
>> Mutt doesn't need a web engine.
> 
> For the reason that you just demonstrated for the class: HTML emails.
> 
> Now, your simple mail shows just fine in a plain text only mail client,
> but in my world, and I'd wager most people's world, handling HTML
> messages (which includes CSS for legibility) is a necessity to some
> varying degree.
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I'm "team plaintext" all day every day but I'm not
> going to make my life more difficult on principles.  There are hills
> worth dying on but this isn't mine.
Iirc, you can setup mutt to open html emails either in a web browser or with something like w3m. There's no need for a web engine in a mail client when you have a perfectly workable web engine in the browser. You can easily reply to html mail in plain text either way, and most html mail are marketing or newsletter emails from companies where replying isn't needed anyways.