These days HTML mail is commonplace. I tried Emacs and mu4e thinking that because Emacs can display images (I’ve used it in org mode) it might have an acceptabl

These days HTML mail is commonplace. I tried Emacs and mu4e thinking that because Emacs can display images (I’ve used it in org mode) it might have an acceptable way to display HTML mail. But I couldn’t make this work in any way that was palatable. Years ago (maybe ten?) I used Mutt. Back then plain-text mail was more common, and when I got HTML mail, I could dump it out to plain text and get something useful. Now, most email authors assume your reader can render HTML. Often there is a plain-text part and all it will say is “you must enable HTML to read this mail.” Good grief it would be better if they’d just omit the plain text altogether if that’s all they’ll say. Unfortunately the days of terminal-based email reading are over I’m afraid. At least some of the modern MUAs are sensitive to having good key bindings, including the MUAs like Gmail and Fastmail that run entirely in browsers.