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Do yourself (and to other e-mail users in the hacker community) some good and use something like Mutt or Gnus. Sth. like Thunderbird is not worth the hassle if
by gkya 9y ago
Do yourself (and to other e-mail users in the hacker community) some good and use something like Mutt or Gnus. Sth. like Thunderbird is not worth the hassle if you can edit a configuration file and read a man page (most folk here, I'd guess), and who can't is using Gmail and/or the app on their phones anyways.
- dest 9y agocan you read HTML emails with Mutt? with pictures?
- luxpir 9y agoFeature, not bug.
- dingaling 9y agoWhy do so many geeks insist that markup is good for web documents but not for e-mail? E-mails can benefit from headings, bulleted lists and tables just as much as a web page. It's all about communicating information in human-digestable format. OR PERHAPS ALL EMAIL SHOULD BE SENT TELEGRAM STYLE WITHOUT PUNCTUATION SINCE THAT IS JUST A DISTRACTION STOP ALSO ONLY IN ASCII CAPS STOP
- pmlnr 9y agoWell structured text is both readable and has a very long life as it is. There are prime examples at textfiles.com, eg. http://textfiles.com/magazines/LOD/lod-1 http://textfiles.com/magazines/LOD/lod-1
- luxpir 9y agoAm also a ham, so not completely opposed to increased take-up of CW. Particularly in a global HF mesh network. I'm not actually opposed to markup at all, but you know exactly the kind of over-designed barf I'm talking about being happy not receiving. I can always open an email from a tmp file in the browser (by hitting <v> then <enter> in mutt) but in more than 9/10 cases that just isn't necessary. W3m renders an approximation of the html layout just fine.
- gkya 9y agoIIRC you can use the browser to view them, i.e. a keystroke opens it in the browser. In Gnus I hit "K H" for that. Emacs also has SHR, a renderer for HTML, but it doesn't do all that good with complex documents.
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