Creating HTML emails with mutt

[Dave Woodfall]

On Wed 30 Oct 2019 12:57,
martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net> put forth the proposition:
> 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.

I don't think embracing wrong email practices is the way forward.  If
I really needed HTML support then I'd use something like claws-mail,
and not change mutt to support it.

Most of my correspondence is with other *nix users though, who mostly
do it right.

For everyone else I press 'z'.

macro pager,index,attach z ":unauto_view text/html<enter>|~/.mutt/elinks<enter>:auto_view
text/html<enter>"



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