Going GUI...er

[Derek Martin]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 09:05:52AM -0700, Felix Finch wrote:
> On 20200409, Derek Martin wrote:
> > 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.

Exactly.  Pretty much the way Mutt works today--just GUIfied.

> 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.

Yes it does:

https://www.lifewire.com/plain-text-message-thunderbird-1173199

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.

At work (where I still do use Mutt) I get them every day.  At home I
get them far less often, but I still do get them, mostly from
businesses I do business with.  I hate it, but I do need to be able to
read them.  In many of these, the content you need is in image
files... sometimes multiple ones, and often enough it's hard (but yes,
not impossible) to peice together what it all means if you're not
looking at it as a whole entity.

YMMV, but face it, nearly all e-mail clients can handle it just fine,
and if you used one of them you would hardly even have any reason to
notice or care, much less call it "inconsiderate."  Mutt just isn't
one of those, and in that regard it does not "suck less."

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