Creating HTML emails with mutt

[martin f krafft]

Regarding the following, written by "John Long" on 2019-10-31 at 10:30 Uhr +0000:
>1. Commonly done != standard. There are standards for things like MIME, 
>POP3, IMAP etc. I'm not aware of ANSI, ISO, IETF standards that say 
>that HTML email is a thing.

Quoting the HTML RFC from 1995: "The Hypertext Markup Language 
(HTML) is a simple markup language used to create hypertext 
documents that are platform independent. HTML documents are SGML 
documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for 
representing information from a wide range of domains. HTML markup 
can represent hypertext news, **mail**, documentation, and 
hypermedia; …"

So yes, HTML was designed pretty much from the start to be used for 
mail.

And then "MIME" came along. Which is a standard, and RFC 2854 makes 
text/html a standard.

Anyway, none of this is relevant, because:

>2. Mutt hasn't had HTML support

… and won't get HTML support. We're working on the ability to create 
multipart/alternative containers.

I am going to stop participating in this "HTML is good or bad for 
Email" debate, and I'd like to invite you all to consider doing the 
same.

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