Going GUI...er

[Jon LaBadie]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 09:41:59AM +0200, Vegard Svanberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I love Mutt.
> 
> However, I'm increasingly finding myself having to resort to various
> tricks to deal with HTML only emails (with picture attachments),
> calendar invites, and other oddities and awkward stuff people send.
> 
> My Holy Grail, which would be a native Mutt GUI client, I guess, doesn't
> seem to exist.
> 
> I don't know how I would survive with a regular GUI client like
> Thunderbird or Evolution. I've tried, but they all suck. Mutt's
> keybindings, search and navigation features are irreplaceable.
> 
> Currently I'm running Mutt from a machine which I ssh into from 5 other
> computers I use frequently (IMAP backend - self-hosted).
> 
> Suggestions? What does everyone else do?

A long time ago when I was a UNIX instructor I spent most of
my time at client sites.  The many security aware sites blocked
my ssh back home for mail reading but generally allowed access
to yahoo's email site.

Again, at that time, yahoo allowed "?reverse pop?", i.e. I could
send my emails received at home (my business site) to my yahoo
email account.

I created a second user "jonpop" which got a copy of all my
emails and filtered out those I did not care to see when
traveling.  The rest got uploaded to yahoo.

Yahoo no longer allows this, nor do I need it anymore.  But
the jonpop account still gets everything and filters out little.
I have Thunderbird on most of my computers and rather than
connect to "jon" they all connect to "jonpop".  If I want to
see a fancy email I read it in Tbird.

While in mutt, if I want to get the gist of a fancy email I
have a function key macro that tries to render the html.
At times it has used lynx, elinks, w3m, and firefox.

Jon
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