[Novalug] Email update: Switched to Evolution from pine.

Jon LaBadie novalugml@jgcomp.com
Tue Apr 8 11:09:32 EDT 2008


On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 09:00:12AM -0400, greg pryzby wrote:
> 
> Maxwell Spangler wrote:
> > I asked a couple weeks ago about what I should use for email if I was
> > finally ready to ditch pine, a classic Unix/Linux text-only email
> > client.  People were looking at me using pine and asking if I was
> > connected to a mainframe or saying that the last time they used an email
> > program like 'that' was 'when they were in college'.  Somehow the odd
> > expression on their faces suggested this time to be between 1985 and
> > 1993.
> > 
...
> > 
> > The next time someone figures out something like HTML within email
> > messages, could someone please tell me to stop living with cavemen and
> > catch up to modern technology?  I can't believe how good emails trying
> > to sell me things can look when I let them show me more than text!
> 
> So I will argue that HTML mail is rude, bloated and allows phishing
> because I say one thing and actually send you to a different place when
> you click.
> 
> Sure, seeing mail in html is nice, but beware. And mutt allowed me to
> see html mail in a browser if I wanted :P
> 

And the browser is lynx of course,
possibly with -localhost option?

At least I do that for unknown html mails.
If I really want to see the frufru,
ThunderBird, my secondary mail reader,
is just a click away.

jl
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