Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Email clients

[Matt Connell <matt@connell.tech>]

On Mon, 2023-07-31 at 14:46 -0400, Kusoneko wrote:
> Why would you want a mail client to also be a web browser when you already have a web browser to do that job? I will never understand the mindset of trying to include web browsers into everything. Web browsers are massive pieces of software, including one in everything massively increases the compile time and resource usage of the software it's added into.

This is why webkit-gtk exists as it does: so it can fulfill this role
as part of multiple packages.  I'm not defending it, I'm just saying it
isn't completely nonsensical to have "browser as a library/module".

> > 
> > Composing HTML also e-mails requires a web-engine. Sure, you can do
> > that using emacs, markdown mode, a web browser for previewing, and so
> > on. It's a lot of work.
> 
> I don't get the point of composing HTML emails. Let's be honest here, unless you're writing emails as part of a company with complicated messes of html signatures or marketing emails, the only difference between composing a plain text email and a html email for most people is unnoticeable.

Or your company forcibly converts emails to HTML so that it can apply a
signature, and you have no say in the matter.  Like mine.  So I write
HTML mails from the get-go so I can have a (better) chance to ensure
they are formatted correctly.