From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A876015800A for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:52:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89437E0D98; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2B5D7E0D8F for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qQX42-0007cS-3N for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:52:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Email clients Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:52:07 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <2313990.ElGaqSPkdT@wstn> <5ae103ff53770b6d9eff69468422bad306e7f326.camel@connell.tech> <13319002.uLZWGnKmhe@wstn> <66c296da3982620ef69abcd588b8377f8a588450.camel@connell.tech> <9e07b48f50e29a4d260f88297f9f0d386075a97a.camel@connell.tech> <1eb06d73-13d4-4f6e-8de7-791afd547c0b@kusoneko.moe> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 5631843b-8ee5-47ea-b6c0-d63fcda1e07d X-Archives-Hash: e087362ab0b4f151fc4030665016ea35 On 2023-07-31, Kusoneko wrote: > >> 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. Wait -- those are web engines. I thought the argument was that mutt didn't need a web engine. If that was the case, then you would have no need to set up mutt to use them to display HTML email. > There's no need for a web engine in a mail client when you have a > perfectly workable web engine in the browser. 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. > You can easily reply to html mail in plain text either way, Some other MUAs handle plain text acceptably, some don't. After I saw how badly Outlook displayed my plaintext e-mails, I tried using markdown to auto-magically send mixed-mode text/html emails (see muttdown). That worked OK, but was a hassle. I eventually gave up and switched to Thunderbird. > and most html mail are marketing or newsletter emails from companies > where replying isn't needed anyways. Most of the HTML mail that lands in my inbox is from friends, family and colleagues. -- Grant