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Because more and more emails are HTML and not text and loading the images is critical to make the emails actually readable.
by harryh 7y ago
Because more and more emails are HTML and not text and loading the images is critical to make the emails actually readable.
- ajmurmann 7y agoThat's mostly true for marketing emails which nobody wants to receive anyways.
- bduerst 7y agoAnd product emails - receipts, product updates that affect you, account status changes, passwords, etc.
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- firethief 7y agoI use mutt, and AFAIK I've never missed anything due to it being in rendered into an image instead of included textually in the email. The images are useless static content, not real information rasterized on demand. Sometimes I do get HTML-only emails, but it's usually not hard to find the important stuff, if there is any, among the tags.
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- vbsteven 7y agoIt’s not very hard to configure (neo)Mutt to display html only emails with w3m in the terminal. Makes it even easier to parse/read them
- craftyguy 7y agow3m will still fetch external assets, including tracking pixels. You have to use something like socksify to basically cut off network access for w3m.
- AlexandrB 7y agoCitation needed. Most of these, even if they include images, at least have a text version of the same content in the email because it's actually important for the sender that you can read them regardless of computing environment.