On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:50:05 -0400 Patrick Shanahan <p...@opensuse.org> wrote:
> * Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> [10-29-19 13:10]: > > On 2019-10-28, Matthias Apitz <g...@unixarea.de> wrote: > > > El día lunes, octubre 28, 2019 a las 04:50:40p. m. -0500, Derek > > > Martin escribió: > > >> > FWIW, I (as a mutt user for 15++ years) do not need this. > > >> > Thanks > > >> > > >> Perhaps not, but the fact that it keeps coming up here is pretty > > >> clear indication that it's a feature that would be useful to a > > >> lot of people... > > > > > > Well, do you speak for you or for a 'lot of people'? Who they > > > are? > > > > Muttdown (a "sendmail" filter) which creates mutlipart alternative > > html/text messages is the only reason I've been able to continue to > > use mutt for the past 5-6 years. About 90% of the people to whom I > > send email can't deal with plaintext only. The display of plaintext > > is butchered horribly by Outlook, This is sadly, absolutely true. It's beyond frustrating to format an email carefully in ASCII text and then have it look like a telegram from Charles Manson by the time Outlook is done with it. > > and using plaintext-only makes me > > look incompetent because I can't send an easy-to-read email (the > > recipient has to save it as a text file and open it with notepad++ > > in a fixed font for it to be readable). > > so you cater to people who have no idea, and cannot be bothered. Which is probably 99.9% of everybody in corp. offices worldwide. Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating for HTML support in mutt. HTML has absolutely no place in email. But I do understand the problem very well after doing some contracting for big corporations and realizing 100s of millions of Windows victims can barely use a computer at all and email is just the tip of the iceberg. My solution is to use something other than mutt in those cases. There is no way to win... /jl
