Going GUI...er

[Russell L. Harris]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 12:19:58PM -0600, Akkana Peck wrote:
>This happens for two reasons:
>1. Mutt shows attachments at the bottom of a message, which was
>reasonable in the days before everyone top-posted; but now I never
>2. Calendar invites are often part of a MIME multipart/alternative:
>I feel like I miss a lot in mail messages because mutt doesn't tell
>me about attachments.

Rather than bastardize Mutt to accommodate mis-use of e-mail (using it
for generalized transport, rather than for communication) and
perversions such as top-posting, a proper approach is to have two
email addresses, and to run a different mail user agent for each.

The first address is for efficient communication with rational and
knowledgeable individuals; such communication is handled by Mutt.  The
second is for communication (which, regrettably, often is essential)
with fluff-heads and with entities of the corporate realm (which is
chained to M$); for this, use an agent such as Thunderbird.

The more needs accommodated, the fewer needs served well.

RLH