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I would really love to try a terminal email client with html email parsing. I miss pine.
by daft_pink 2y ago
I would really love to try a terminal email client with html email parsing.
I miss pine.
- eddyfromtheblok 2y agoI used to use mutt and bind a keyboard shortcut to pipe HTML messages to w3m.
- wgrover 2y agoI miss Pine too. I could read/file/delete scores of plaintext emails in seconds using single keystrokes. Every email client I've used since Pine has been better at dealing with all the stuff we've bolted on to email (HTML, attachments, calendar invites...) but none of them have been as efficient at the core tasks of email as Pine was.
- stavros 2y agoWhat sort of keystrokes? The Fastmail web interface uses single keystrokes for interacting with mail, which is very handy.
- jjav 2y agomutt is alive and well, it's all I use for email. At work I'm forced to use the unusable gmail website, ugh.
- eddd-ddde 2y agoCurious what's unusable about gmail. I love the UI plus I also love the sidebar with tasks, calendar, etc. For me outlook is the real pain, I just redirect my emails there to my gmail.
- leephillips 2y agoGmail is not a real email client; it lacks basic commands such as mail bouncing. Perhaps worst of all, it has no concept of conversation threads, as I demonstrate here: https://lwn.net/Articles/837960/ https://lwn.net/Articles/837960/
- eddd-ddde 2y agoHuh that's really interesting. I have used mutt before, and I hated how it handled replies and that was the reason I returned to plain gmail. I guess it's a matter of taste.
- myaccountonhn 2y agoYou can parse html emails with it by piping to w3m or using pandoc
- folmar 2y agoPine is not dead for me yet. I use alpine as daily driver, although the releases are not that often.
- d99kris 2y agoYou could give my email client https://github.com/d99kris/nmail https://github.com/d99kris/nmail a shot. It does basic html email parsing (leveraging w3m and pandoc) and its user interface is inspired by pine.