Going GUI...er

[Felix Finch]

On 20200409, Derek Martin wrote:
>Just because the current batch of GUI MUAs does this does not mean
>yours *needs* to.  That would be the beauty of a GUI Mutt--it already
>has the philosophy of not automatically exposing you to all those same
>attack vectors.  After all, text-based Mutt has exactly the same
>attack vetctors; it just does not expose you to them by default--you
>have to take action to expose yourself to them.
>
>And honestly, most mailers have the ability to avoid these attack
>vectors--they just don't by default, because that's what the average
>person wants.  Mutt users typically are not average e-mail users, and
>know better.

The few times I've imagined what kind of GUI email reader I would like enough to use, it mostly comes down to plain text by default and not opening any attachments or links until requested.  Attachments would show as prompts; you could see or save them all at once or individually.  You could have whitelists and blacklists, by sender and by URL.  That's all I would really ask.

Someone mention a Torpedo extension to Thunderbird recently. so I installed Thunderbird just to try it.  Nope: Thunderbird doesn't even have a preference to send text only email.  It might be useful for those few emails where I need to see the pictures to make any sense of it, but I will never use it regularly, or to reply.

I get maybe one email a week or month which makes no sense as rendered text.  I save the HTML part as xxx.html and bring it up in an editor, and maybe in a browser.  It's always corporate email, and I doubt that tells them much they don't already know or guess.

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