Going GUI...er

[Derek Martin]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 02:29:02PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> When God invented email, He intended that it be plain text! :)
> As such, rich-text/html/images in email is the spawn of the devil. :) :)

Ignoring the aspect about sky fairies inventing anything, this is
still largely untrue.  Sure, in 1973, when RFC 524 (the first RFC
related to transfer of electronic messages) was published, there was
nothing else but ASCII available to the vast majority of systems
capable of handling e-mail.  No RFC ever said any such thing as,
"e-mail is now and forever shall be ASCII text only."  MIME came along
in 1992, when people started having more reasonable access to
computers that had more capable facilities, and RFC 1521 goes to great
lengths to define how e-mail message bodies can be basically any
arbitrary data.

That was almost 30 years ago folks.  And I mean come on--low-tech
physical media printing could handle mixed pictures and formatted text
long, long before that.  It's time to get with the program.

I've said it before--I too would love a mutt-based (or mutt-similar)
GUI mail client.  Frankly, no matter how much I love Mutt (and you
know I do), trying to make the case that Mutt's handling of modern,
every-day common e-mail messages is anything but clunky and backward
is insane.  If I could find a GUI mailer that had half the power of
Mutt without the crashing/corruption of Claws and similar, I'd marry
that software. =8^)

I keep thinking I really need to give Kmail another look.  Then again,
maybe I should just move everything to gmail and be done with it.

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