Going GUI...er

[Russell L. Harris]

>On Sat Apr 04, 2020 at 09:41:59 +0200, Vegard Svanberg wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Suggestions? What does everyone else do?

The solution I found was to create on the mail server an account for
"ugly mail", install Thunderbird on my main machine, and configure
Thunderbird to retrieve from the "uglymail" account; that way,
Thunderbird does not mess with my maildir structure.

Then, when, using Mutt, I encounter an uglymessage, I bounce it to the
uglymail account, with the command ":exec bounce-message".  Afterward,
I use Thunderbird to view or otherwise process the uglymessage and
attachments.

RLH