On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 07:59:45AM -0400, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 09:18:37PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > 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. > > Go ahead and call me crazy, then. For me, Mutt's handling of modern, > every-day common e-mail messages is a feature. It strips away all of > the distracting, intelligence-free clutter and lets me *read the > message*.
Except increasingly, because of how typical users use e-mail, it doesn't. That's entirely the problem. And you can say it's their fault, and technically that's right, but it doesn't matter in practice, if you NEED to read their messages and can't (easily). > If I were condemned to use only one of those gooey-fied MUAs, I would > be working on a plugin to configure-off all of the formatting, gather > the attachments into a menu to be viewed or ignored as I choose, pop > up an "are you sure?" dialog before following links, and generally > make it more like Mutt. But that is exactly what I'm advocating for/want. A MUTT gui. Maybe when I retire, I'll write one... -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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