Creating HTML emails with mutt

José María Mateos chema at rinzewind.org
Sun Nov 3 16:41:44 UTC 2019


On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 07:56:34AM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote:
>I like that Mutt presents emails simply.  It ignores all the fancy
>to-the-pixel formatting, pointless images, distracting backgrounds,
>and flashing multicolored nonsense.  I find that reading mail with
>Mutt is more restful than with other MUAs.  Occasionally I do
>encounter a message whose text/plain part says only "you must enable
>HTML mail to read this message."  I interpret this as "you do not need
>or want to read this message," and I happily hit "d" and move on.

My bank still sends me this in the text/plain part of the message every 
month:

Your %%MONTH%% %%ACCOUNTTYPE%% %%STATEMENTRECEIPT%% is ready

But yes, I've also learned to ignore it.

Also, I also want to thank you for writing this down. All the reasons 
why I use mutt boil down to essentially this.

Cheers,

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José María (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org/


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