Creating HTML emails with mutt

[martin f krafft]

Regarding the following, written by "Martin Trautmann" on 2019-10-30 at 00:14 Uhr +0100:
>That's such a strange thing.
>[…]
>since they never learned, how proper threading and quoting could 
>have worked?

78 characters wide text/plain is just not the lowest common 
denominator anymore. I am not going to sing an ode to HTML email, 
but being able to use Markdown to create more expressive emails than 
using ASCII art is not something I find utterly offensive.

If you want someone to blame, shake your fist at Microsoft (for 
forcing HTML into email), and Google (for actively breaking 
threading and quoting rules). That said, Gmail is far easier to use 
if you want to refer back to content written earlier in a thread 
than mutt, where you either have to save a draft, or open a second 
instance, find the thread, and navigate around messages, or use 
clunky search.

Society has moved on, and we all risk sounding like grumpy old folks 
reminiscing at the times when everyone knew what netiquette was if 
we don't embrace the progress that's been happening around us. And 
text/html is part of that progress, whether you like it or not.

If we don't embrace progress, then mutt will not have any users in a 
decade or two.

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