TUI Email Client ???

freezr

freezr

Hi guys,

do you have any suggestion for an intuitive TUI Email Client which is not Mutt?

Thanks in advance,

F.
 
I tried it out but I couldn't make it working...
And when I feel frustrated the clunky TUI method get more irritated... ?
 
I see why people may not like mutt(): nowadays we all get html-formatted emails a lot, and sometimes they cannot be rendered properly in a TUI client. Moreover, some companies don't even bother sending a plain text version, or, even worse, the text part is different from the html one!
As a work-around I added the following line to ~/.mutt/mailcap:
Code: 
text/html; mutt-html %s
where mutt-html is a script in $PATH:
Code: 
#!/bin/sh
FILE=/tmp/mutt-`date +%s`.html
cp -f "$1" $FILE
firefox file://$FILE
So, in a case when I really want to see the original html message I hit v to view the parts of that message, then hit m on the text/html part, and get my message rendered by firefox.
 
I do somthing similar, based on an old page from Jason Ryan. He uses vim-probable, or at least did when he wrote it, I use firefox with an entry in $HOME/.mailcap of
Code: 
text/html; firefox -new-tab %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
I also agree with his views on html email. It is never needed and does nothing but make it easier to spread malware.

His page:

Mutt and HTML email - jasonwryan.com

Following on from my last post about Mutt, I have been tinkering more with the most suckless of mail clients to get it to deal with—of all things— …
jasonwryan.com jasonwryan.com

But this brings up a good question. Why don't you want mutt? Maybe it's something that someone here can aid you in fixing.
 
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