Re: [orca-list] Pondering a new email client.

[Sebastian Humenda <shumenda gmx de>]

Hi Alex

Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com> wrote on Sa, Mär 19, 2011 at 02:14:52 -0500:
> That's very interesting.  Will the text be rendered into html or do
> you have to wade through the html source code to read your message?
No. Most Mails send with HTML are IMHO also available as plain text,
send as a multi-part message. I just referred to them. But you can of
course use mailcap to define how HTML shall be handled. In this case
you navigate to your message, press <v> and then select the
HTML-version of the message. If configured correctly, your favorite
browser, maybe w3m or firefox, opens. There you can read your HTML
mail as you would did in a graphical mail client.
Mutt here uses automatically w3m. For Firefox, just open ~/.mailcap
and put the following line into it:
text/html; firefox %s

> Personally, I'm rather partial to Alpine for plain text e-mails and
> Evolution for HTML stuff.  I've got Fetchmail, procmail and Postfix
> configured to handle the e-mail system wide for me so I can pick any
> mail clinent I want since some are better than others for certain
> things or more convenient in some situations.  For instance, I like
> sending mail from Emacs occasionally and it's nice to be able to just
> send it so that Postfix takes care of the low-level stuff and I can
> just get back to what I was doing after I've sent the mail out.  I
This is an interesting idea. I don't miss anything when using mutt,
but it seems reasonable to use evolution to read mails when I'm
working with Orca/GNOME and mutt on the command line, when working
there.

> have never tried Mutt though.  How does it compare to Alpine?
Can't say, I've heard that some don't like Mutt's imap support, but
for the rest Mutt is great (I only use POP3/SSMTP)

Greetings
Sebastian
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